[sniff.... sniff]
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After that we started with our core material, the film The Taming of the Shrew by Wiliam Shakespeare:
[staring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor]
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Historical Backgound:
- written between 1590-1594 and published in 1623
- one of his romantic comedies, which contain elements of light-hearted humor, disguises or deception and happy endings
- written during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) daughter of infamous King Henry VIII, husband to six wives, two of whom he had beheaded
- Marriage as an economic institution: dowry, men of wealth/standing
- Social Roles and individual happiness: happiness depends on everyone playing their roles
- Disguises: can a person change their social role by changing their clothes? No.
- Domestication: "taming of Katherina", curing her anti-socialness
Taming of the Shrew
Stereotypes
Female Male
Blondes - well tempered & innocent superior
Dark Hair - dominent hero
daughter = treasure ´ active
big breasts no manners
veil = secrecy tempremental
passive money orientated
self- control intellectuals (tutors)
good behaviour welcomed by society academic education
want children and a clean house bandit
victims
modest /virtous
passive money orientated
self- control intellectuals (tutors)
good behaviour welcomed by society academic education
want children and a clean house bandit
victims
modest /virtous
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Dialogue Match:
Like with our sound game this morning, we played another close-your-eyes-find-your-partner game. This time, students found important two-line passages from The Taming of the Shrew and each pair chose one passage, each student chose one line. Seperated and blind, the students had to find each other by calling out their lines. Madness ensued!
Act III Scene II
Katherina: "I see a woman may be made a fool if she had not a spirit to resist."
Petruchio: "They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command. Obey the bride, you that attend on her."
Act III Scene II
Lucentio: "Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?"
Bianca: "That being mad herself, she's madly mated."
Act III Scene II
Hortensio: "Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister."
Gremio: "A husband? A devil."
Act III Scene II
Katherina: "Pray you sir, is it your will to make a stale of me amongst these mates?"
Hortensio: "Mates, maid, how mean you that? No mates for you unless you were of gentler, milder mould."
Act III Scene II
Petruchio: "Come, come you wasp!"
Katherina: "If I be waspish, best beward of my sting."
Act III Scene II
Katherina: "Call you me daughter, now I promise you you have showed a tender fatherly regard to wish me wed to one half lunitac."
Petruchio: "Father, 'tis thus - yourself and all the world that talked of her have talked amiss of her."
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Taglines:
A tagline is a short phrase found at the bottom movie posters designed to entice people into seeing the filmand they, to an extent, summarise the film. We had the students come up with Taglines for Taming of the Shrew:
Student's Taglines:
Love, obedience, fight - how love can change.
A battle of wills.
"I love to hate you."
Mad-woman meets Mad-man."
A story of extremes.
And will you, nill you, I will marry you.
She burrowed her way into his heart.
The Taming of the Shrew (1967) Original Tagline:
A romantic film amorously devoted to every man who ever gave the back of his hand to his beloved...and to every woman who deserved it!
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Original Tagline:
How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
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10 Things I Hate About You
Watching the film with our beamer... we had a few technical difficulties, but once the movie got going, we were all engrossed!!!
[just enough light to take notes...]
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THURSDAY NIGHT 19:30 ROOM 2CHL: *English* Poetry Slam
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