As a modern audience, we must be conscious of the society in which Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew. The main part is set in Padua, a city in northern Italy. In the eyes of Elizabethan England, Italy was a desirable country of beautiful, materialistic nature and living. Thus it became a popular setting for Shakespeare and his contemporaries for plays involving deceit, money, beautiful women, or anything involving such shallow pleasures – but noticeably …showed first 75 words of 1431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1431 total…she truly allowed herself to be obedient in married life. Petruchio, probably from having experienced it first hand from Kate, is knowledgeable of feministic intelligence and behaviour, and is therefore unsurprised, unlike his newlywed male counterparts, when their wives are “froward”. Both Petruchio and Katharina are happy, and both contextual and written reasoning can be found to support the concept that Kate truly believed her silioque, that Petruchio had indeed tamed the shrew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**