Month: October 2012
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Summary of the taming of the shrew.
Character analysis. Katherina is put across as a “shrew”—a loud, bad-tempered woman by her own behavior and by the comments of other characters.Kate is the title character (the “Shrew”) of the play. The eldest and unmarried daughter of Baptista Minola, no man wants anything to do with her because she’s got a hot temper, slaps…
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Practise question (taming of the shrew)
This is not a fair comparison as petruchios insulting behaviour is not similar to Katharina, where petruchio is very rude and insulting and is not respectful for example ‘ you peasant swain! You whoreson malthorse drudge! Did I not bid thee meet me in the park and bring along these rascal knaves with thee?’ These…
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Christopher sly
Christopher sly is a drunken beggar, and also a tinker. He collapses outside a pub that he has been ejected From. He awakens and finds himself transformed into a lord and has been madly supposing himself as a drunken beggar for the past fifteen years. He wishes to go to bed immediately with his new…
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elizabethan england
Elizabethan England – Crime & PunishmentElizabethan England and Elizabethan Crime and Punishment – not a happy subject. Violent times. Crimes were met with violent, cruel punishments. Many punishments and executions were witnessed by many hundreds of people. Facts about the different Crime and Punishment of the Nobility, Upper Classes and Lower Classes. Elizabethan England –…