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How Does Shakespeare Use Disguise In The Taming Of The Shrew

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Disguise is a common, persuasive theme in many of Shakespeare’s plays that he uses in the story to persuade someone to do something else or think in another way. In Act 2 of The Taming of the Shrew, a play by William Shakespeare, many people use disguises in a plan in order to marry off Bianca and Kate, Baptista’s daughters. Scene One begins with Kate and Bianca bantering and Kate decides to tie Bianca up because she refused to tell her who she was interested in marrying. They continue fighting and Bianca is slapped by her sister. Baptista enters the scene and unties Bianca’s hands while scolding Kate for her unruly actions. But in doing this, he only angers Kate more by making her think that Baptista loves Bianca more. Bianca and Kate exit as Gremio, Lucentio (as …show more content…

Petruchio then presents his plan to be a music teacher to Kate and attempt to woo her so that Baptista will let him marry Kate. Gremio then steps in and presents his plan of having Lucentio (as Cambio) be a schoolteacher to his daughters. Tranio (as Lucentio), gives Baptista some books and a musical instrument as gifts to him and his daughters. Baptista then sends the teachers into his house so that they can start teaching. Petruchio stays behind with Baptista so that he can persuade him to let Petruchio see Kate and discuss what the dowry would be if him and Kate were to get married. Hortensio (as Litio) then comes running in because Kate had hit him with the instrument while teaching her. Because of this, Petruchio claims that he now loves Kate even more. Kate enters the scene, meets Petruchio, and they start to argue back and forth, using a series of puns. Baptista, Gremio, and Tranio (as Lucentio) enter back into the scene and Petruchio lies to Baptista and says that him and

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He immediately starts to hatch a plan to marry her. By disguising himself as a schoolmaster named Cambio, he convinces Gremio to offer him to Baptista as a tutor for Bianca. He wins her love and they plan to marry. But his disguise gets him

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It is the invisible masks that the three lead identities [Kate, Petruchio, and Bianca] use in the play to please and showcase the appropriate character in the current situation. Cross-dressing [disguising] is another way to support this statement of manipulating characters by appearance. Lucentio and his servants [Tranio and Biondello] need to be known to be a part of the rich community to join the high-class and have a good relationship with the people there. Due to the disguise, Tranio almost tricks Baptista into marrying his precious daughter, Bianca. While on the other side, the three leads show the concept of controlling role play by often changing the ways in which people view them.

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Baptista states that “Bianca must not be Wed unless Katherine is wed first”.  Hortensia and Gremio divide a plan to wed Katherine to Petruchio . On Katherine's wedding day Petruchio  refers to Katherine as “my goods, my chattels; she is my house, my household stuff, my field, my barn, my horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing”. To tame Katherine Petruchio abuses her. Junger’s film is baed on Kat Stratford and her sister Bianca who attended Padua High.

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Through his incentive, he is very determined to marry Kate even though she comes with money, marriage, and a malicious attitude. In addition, Petruchio does not care if his wife is a shrew or foul, he just asks "...if thou know one rich enough to be Petruchio's wife" (1.2.68). Not to mention, after Hortensio tells him of Kate, Petruchio only says to "...tell [him] her father's name, and tis enough" (1.2.95). Petruchio understands that Kate has a "...scolding tongue" (1.2.101) even though Hortensio warms him. Due to his incentive to cure Kate of her shrew-ish ways and to get Baptista's money.

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He goes undercover so that he can pretend to be a teacher, with the sole motivation of teaching Bianca. Shakespeare's audience can interpret this as charming, or odd depending on how you look at it. This gesture could be charming because he wants to be near her, or odd because it could seem as if he is stalking her. Bianca has many suitors, so this was a smart move on Lucentio/Cambio’s part. He can get close to her, and make her fall in love with him without getting anyone else involved.

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