The Taming of the Shrew

Chapter 2: Dramatis Personæ

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A lively comedy opens with a practical joke on a drunken tinker and then follows households in a university town where a wealthy father's two daughters attract suitors; the younger is mild and courted through disguise while the elder resists marriage and sharpens her tongue. A bold outsider courts the elder with theatrical tactics to break her will, while trickery, masked identities, and servants' plots arrange romances. Scenes move between domestic interiors and a country house as witty language, role-playing, and debates about obedience, performance, and gender inform confrontations and a final public test of married behavior.

Dramatis Personæ

Persons in the Induction
A LORD
CHRISTOPHER SLY, a tinker
HOSTESS
PAGE
PLAYERS
HUNTSMEN
SERVANTS

BAPTISTA MINOLA, a rich gentleman of Padua
VINCENTIO, an old gentleman of Pisa
LUCENTIO, son to Vincentio; in love with Bianca
PETRUCHIO, a gentleman of Verona; suitor to Katherina

Suitors to Bianca
GREMIO
HORTENSIO

Servants to Lucentio
TRANIO
BIONDELLO

Servants to Petruchio
GRUMIO
CURTIS

PEDANT, set up to personate Vincentio

Daughters to Baptista
KATHERINA, the shrew
BIANCA

WIDOW

Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio

The Taming of the Shrew

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Dramatis Personæ

SCENE: Sometimes in Padua, and sometimes in Petruchio’s house in the country.