“The Woman’s Prize, or the Tamer Tamed” by John Fletcher, a Jacobean and Caroline playwright who was a principal dramatist for the King’s Men at one time, this play is a comedy written around 1610. It is said to be the comic sequel to the Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew”, but now Petruchio, the “wife-tamer”, has had the tables turned on him in Fletcher’s play. Now his new and second wife Maria is the “husband-tamer”, playing tricks on her new husband until he relinquishes to her and gives lavish and endless love to her. The subplot, which is interlaced with the main plot perfectly, in this play is Livia, Maria’s sister, who falls in love with Rowland but Moroso, an old wealthy man, wants to marry Livia and end her relationship with her true love. The prologue prepares you for all the aspects this play will hold for the reader or the viewer. It sets the mood and grabs your attention right away. The play begins right after the wedding unifying Petruchio and Maria; Petruchio’s friends Moroso, Sophocles, and Tranio discuss the couple together. They agree he is a good man, yet they are somewhat worried about Maria because of what happened with Petruchio’s first wife; Petruchio was what you could call a “wife-tamer”. Then …show more content…
Maria comes up with certain terms that Petruchio must first agree to before she will leave her chambers, he tries to calmly change her mind but soon becomes infuriated. While this battle began Livia was starting to put her plan into action that will allow her to have both her dowry and her true love, Rowland. So she goes and publically dismisses Rowland, in front of Moroso especially, he then went quickly to Livia’s father to discuss marriage to her. As her father promised her hand in marriage to Moroso, Livia returned to her sister and cousin’s locked chamber begging to be welcomed back in, and was admitted