(December 18, 2019 at 3:20 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(December 18, 2019 at 3:13 pm)Ranjr Wrote: Kate and Petruchio learn from each other and grow as people, eventually finding common ground and beginning a fun life together.
Bianca turns out to be the shrew. Those stories are still in play.
Not the version I saw.
In the version I saw, you still had the dowrey motif, and girls/women are not property to be bartered like back then. And Petruchio was a fucking stalker, assaulter and abuser in the version I saw. Since when is it ok to kidnap someone, force them to marry you, force them to move with you, then when you don't tidy the house you starve them? That is not love, that is abuse.
If the play made you uncomfortable, then Shakespeare got what he wanted. In the late 16th century, arranged marriages were beginning to fade out, and 'Taming of the Shrew' is (I think) at least partly a critical commentary on the old way of doing things.
Boru
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