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Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is not a play about courtship but a play about marriage and the roles of the sexes in a marriage. The play doesn’t represent the different types of courtship procedures of the time, but the different roles played by each sex in a marriage. The attitudes portrayed by each character reflect the different views of marriage in the Elizabethan times. ... All four of them played different roles in the portrayal of the Elizabethan marriage and the often conflicting nature of the relationships. ... Often the couples will go into a marriage and not truly love their partner, but after time the couple begins to love each other. ... Lucentio and Bianca were part of a typical Elizabethan courting and marriage, while Katharina and Petruchio were involved in a backwards courting that ended up being a happy marriage. The play shows us each of these four character’s views of marriage through their courtship. Also, in the Elizabethan era marriage was not a private affair. Often the neighbors and other family members knew much about how the marriage is going. This can provide to be a good thing for couples that are having problems; the neighbors were suggested to intervene in ways that can improve a couple’s marriage. ... These are many of the challenges that await the two couples in The Taming of the Shrew.
Bianca plays the part of the perfect daughter that has many suitors and is expected to have a happy marriage. This is what seems to happen until the very end when she denounces Lucentio’s orders and reveals herself as the shrew. ... She hints at this when she says, “Old fashions please me best…” (Shakespeare, 53) After getting married, she drops the facade and becomes the shrew that she was hiding from us all along.
Approximate Word count = 1453
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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