SETTING THE STAGE FOR ACT 5 Aim: How is all resolved by Act 5? What is the denouement & what is the moral or lesson? Aim: How is all resolved by Act 5? What is the denouement & what is the moral or lesson? Do Now: Setting the Stage for Act 5 Do Now: Setting the Stage for Act 5 3 steps to taming a shrew: Is the shrew tamed? 3 steps to taming a shrew: Is the shrew tamed? Deception & A Secret Wedding Deception & A Secret Wedding Lesson: Watching Act 5 Lesson: Watching Act 5 H.W.: In preparation for our final discussion of the play when we return from break, please write a 1 paragraph response: H.W.: In preparation for our final discussion of the play when we return from break, please write a 1 paragraph response: What did you think of the play overall? What did you think of the play overall? What did you think of the ending? What did you think of the ending? After getting to know our characters, is this a believable or expected ending? Explain. After getting to know our characters, is this a believable or expected ending? Explain.

TAMING THE SHREW HOW IS KATE HUMBLED? Begs Grumio for food (he, in turn, teases her: line 19-30) Says she is “starved for meat, giddy with lack of sleep” (9) Points out the irony that “he does it under the name of perfect love” (12) Curses them all = “Sorrow on the pack of thee, and all the pack of you that triumph thus on my misery” (34-35) Still hasn’t learned her lesson Petruchio is the only one who brings her dinner = he forces her to thank him if she wants to eat (45-50) Even Hortensio is disturbed by this (50-51)

TAMING THE SHREW HOW IS KATE HUMBLED? Tells her that they will go to the wedding & promises to buy her a list of fine things (55-64) BUT……How does Petruchio act with the tailor? Insults the style & quality = “lewd and filthy” (69) When Kate says this is what gentlewomen (noble) wear, he says, “When you are gentle, you shall have one too.”(75) Kate says, “My tongue will tell you the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break…I will be free to the utter most, as I please.” (81-85) = Still will do what she wants “I like the cap, and I will have it, or I will have none.” (89-90) She will have none then Why does he do this? Does he have a deeper purpose?

TAMING THE SHREW HOW IS KATE HUMBLED? Purpose = “Our purposes shall be proud, our garments poor, for ‘tis the mind that makes the body rich.” ( ) What test does he give Kate with the time? “It shall be seven ere I go to horse. Look what I speak or do or think to do, You are still crossing it…” ( ) “Ever more crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed (4.5.11) Kate learns her lesson “Be it…what you please…Henceforth I vow it shall be for me.” (15-17) Hortensio: “The field is won.” (26) What two tests does Petruchio give Kate on the road that she passes?

SETTING UP THE RESOLUTION THINGS BEGIN TO UNRAVEL OR BE RESOLVED On pg.185, what does the little servant Biondello tell Lucentio is al arranged for him and Bianca to do? The meeting with Baptista is just a distraction The meeting with Baptista is just a distraction “Baptista is safe, talking with a deceitful father of a deceiving son.” ( ) “Baptista is safe, talking with a deceitful father of a deceiving son.” ( ) Busied with “counterfeit assurances” (93) Busied with “counterfeit assurances” (93) Look at the language Shakespeare uses: what does it suggest about Tranio & Lucentio’s characters? Look at the language Shakespeare uses: what does it suggest about Tranio & Lucentio’s characters? When Petruchio & Kate meet the real Vincentio, Petruchio tells him that his son is getting married to Kate’s sister ( ) When Petruchio & Kate meet the real Vincentio, Petruchio tells him that his son is getting married to Kate’s sister ( )