By Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Pamela Loos
ISBN-10: 0791095983
ISBN-13: 9780791095980
Shakespeare, who in actual fact most popular his ladies characters to his males (always excepting Falstaff and Hamlet), enlarges the human from the beginning, by way of subtly suggesting that ladies have the more true feel of truth.
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After she does, the other two wives remark on the ridiculousness of this behavior. When Lucentio tells Bianca he has lost 100 crowns because she did not come when he asked for her, she bluntly calls him a fool. The beautiful Bianca is certainly not the sweet woman that all the others had imagined. Petruchio has additional requests for his wife. He tells her to tell the other women how they should behave with their husbands. The widow argues against this, but Kate gives a long speech about how ugly women are when they act negatively toward their husbands.
When Petruchio goes further and says that Hortensio is afraid of her, she responds that Petruchio, because he is unhappy with his own shrew, believes Hortensio must be unhappy with his wife as well. Kate confronts the widow, and the husbands egg the women on to fight further. Baptista, Gremio, Bianca, and Vincentio add comments, and we see that Bianca can be shrewish herself. Petruchio encourages her to make more jests, but she is annoyed and leaves, inviting whomever else wishes to go with her to do so, and the widow and Kate do.
The remark also reminds us how like a madman Petruchio must appear to Vincentio. Especially for people reading the play rather than watching it performed, Hortensio’s comment reminds us that Vincentio is standing right before Petruchio and reacting to his outlandish speech. Kate then chimes in. She addresses Vincentio as if he were a young woman, just as Petruchio did. Just as he did, she remarks on Vincentio’s supposedly pretty looks. Petruchio then does a reversal. He asks Kate if she is mad, saying the person before them is not a maiden at all.