bianca was the younger sister of kate in the taming of the shrew.
bianca was the younger sister of kate in the taming of the shrew.
younger sister of kate in the taming of the shrew?
bianca
"the taming of the shrew" has been adapted numerous times for stage, screen, opera, ballet, and musical theatre; perhaps the most famous adaptations being cole porter's "kiss me, kate" and the 1967 film of the play, starring elizabeth taylor and richard burton. the 1999 high school comedy film "10 things i hate about you" is also loosely based on the play.









































section::::characters.









































bullet::::- katherina (kate) minola – the "shrew" of the title









































bullet::::- bianca minola – sister of katherina; the "ingénue"









































bullet::::- baptista minola – father of katherina and bianca









































bullet::::- petruchio – suitor of katherina
the taming of the shrew
with the rise of the feminist movement in the twentieth century, reactions to the play have tended to become more divergent. for some critics, "kate's taming was no longer as funny as it had been [...] her domination became, in george bernard shaw's words 'altogether disgusting to modern sensibility'." addressing the relationship between "a shrew" and "the shrew" from a political perspective, for example, leah s. marcus very much believes the play to be what it seems. she argues "a shrew" is an earlier version of "the shrew", but acknowledges that most scholars reject the idea that "a shrew" was written by shakespeare. she believes one of the reasons for this is because "a shrew" "hedges the play's patriarchal message with numerous qualifiers that do not exist in" "the shrew". she calls "a shrew" a more "progressive" text than "the shrew", and argues that scholars tend to dismiss the idea that "a shrew" is shakespearean because "the women are not as satisfactorily tamed as they are in "the shrew"." she also points out that if "a shrew" is an early draft, it suggests shakespeare "may have increased rather than decreased the patriarchal violence of his materials", something which, she believes, scholars find difficult to accept.
the taming of the shrew