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The 

Taming of the Shrew




Swaggering outsider Petruchio has decided that he will marry feisty shrew, Katherina. However, her father has insisted that he win her love before he hand over her huge dowry and she is strangely resistant to Petruchio's charms. 
       As the brief 'courtship' continues, it becomes increasingly laiden with double entendres, sexual tension and violence. But the decision is not Katherina's to make. 



…with my tongue in your tail?

Katherina : Let him that moved you hither/Remove you hence. I knew you at the first/You were a movable
Petruchio : Why, what's a movable?
Katherina : A joint stool
Petruchio : Thou hast hit it. Come sit on me
Katherina : Asses are made to bear, and so are you
Petruchio : Women are made to bear, and so are you
Katherina : No such jade as you, if me you mean
Petruchio : Alas, good Kate, I will not burden thee,/For, knowing thee to be but young and light
[my edit]
Petruchio : Come, come you wasp, I'faith you are too angry
Katherina : If I be waspish, best beware my sting
Petruchio : My remedy is then to pluck it out
Katherina : Ay, if the fool could find where it lies
Petruchio : Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?/In his tail
Katherina : In his tongue
Petruchio : Whose tongue?
Katherina : Yours, if you talk of tales, and so farewell [she turns to go]
Petruchio : What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again/Good Kate I am a gentleman
Katherina : That I'll try [she strikes him]
Petruchio : I swear I'll cuff you if you strike again [he holds her]
Katherina : So may you lose your arms./If you strike me, you are no gentleman
[my edit]
Petruchio : You shall be my wife, your dowry 'greed on/And will you, nill you, I will marry you/Now Kate, I am a husband for your turn/For, by this light whereby I see thy beauty -/Thou must be married to no man but me,/For I am he born to tame you, Kate,/And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate/Conformable as other household Kates./Here comes your father, never make denial -/I must and will have Katherine to my wife

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Play: The Taming of the Shrew
Scene: Petruchio's ungentle courtship begins as he means to go on.
 

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