HELP!

I still need alot of help with some of the quotes on the test because I still have not taken it. I am not asking for someone to tell me the exact quotes but if someone could sort of guide me?

Don't Sweat the Test Too Much

I know I haven't been there, and that the situation isn't ideal, but from what you've been posting and the opinionated way you've been writing, you should have a lot to say on the test. Remember, the study guide was worth 30 points (1/3 again of the test grade), and you should all get 30/30 on that. I think you liked the play, and that was really my goal, so if you have a pretty basic understanding you should be fine. Miss you all!

Is Kate childish, spiteful, or just waiting for love?

I can't decide if she just didn't want to get married because she hasn't found someone she was interested in or if she just wants to spite her sister and society. What do yall think?

So how did yall like the ending of the play?

taming of the quotes!!!!

does anybody have a list of quotes that could help me with the test?

a reoccuring theme(not necessarily in 'taming')

http://threes.com/cms/index.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_(number)

HAPPY TURKEY DAY

what did yall have for thanksgiving?

Sorry I've been out of touch.

I haven't been able to e-mail since there wasn't e-mail at my conference. Since I've been with my family, I've had to go to the hospital each day to be with my grandfather. He is quite ill.
I hope you're all having a good break! See you soon.

$ or Love?

would you guys marry Kate for the $ or would you pursue a true love.

Kate

Is it just me or do yall feel sorry for Kate too?

Important quotes and footnoes!?

list or tell some good quotes/famous quotes/even if not 100% test worthy. also are their any key footnotes that are important like the one about the how the kate would dance bare foot and such?
thanks

	That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites
	That bate and beat and will not be obedient.
	She ate no meat today, nor none shall eat.
	Last night she slept not, nor tonight she shall not.
	As with the meat, some undeservèd fault
	I'll find about the making of the bed,
	And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
	This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.
	Ay, and amid this hurly I intend
	That all is done in reverend care of her.
	And, in conclusion, she shall watch all night,
	And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl,
	And with the clamor keep her still awake.
	This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
	And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humor.
	He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
	Now let him speak; 'tis charity to show.

hhmwk? act 4?

? for ms. d's class...nothing on the hmwk site..nothing at all.

I don't know...

What is a pedant? Is that a slave or something?

Whats the Point?

What was the reason Shakespeare put in the introduction part with Christopher Sly besides for Doug to read? It seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the play.

The Taming of The class of 2008

If u could match people from our class with certain charachters, who would be who? No one should take offense to this

Comparison of 10 things I hate about you and Taming of the Shrew!

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200401/ai_n9394375

Click this link!

CLARIFICATION HELP! PLEASE

so help with all these diguised people. because somehow all the suitors and their servants get mixed up.
can someone please help me pair these (disguises and such) and explain..thanks

• Christopher Sly - tinker
• Bartholomew - A page
• Baptista Minola - Father of Kate and Bianca
• Katherine (Kate) - The "shrew" of the title
• Petruchio Suitor and husband of Kate. - Petruccio says upon his father’s death, he set out to look for a wife, hoping to marry a rich man’s daughter and thereby augment his family fortune. Hortensio decides to hook petruchio up with Katherine since he only cares about a rich father.
• Grumio - Servant of Petruchio- newly arrived in Padua, goes with his servant grumio to see hortensio that he knows from verona
• Curtis - Servant of Petruchio
• Nathaniel - Servant of Petruchio
• Joseph - Servant of Petruchio
• Bianca - Sister of Kate; the ingenue
• Gremio - Elderly Suitor of Bianca

Hortensio - Suitor of Bianca (later disguised as the teacher Litio) With Petruchio he disguise himself as a schoolmaster(litio) so that he can court Bianca secretly.

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o Vincentio - Father of Lucentio

o Lucentio - Suitor of Bianca (later disguised as the teacher Cambio) decides to disguise himself as a teacher Cambio in the hope that by tutoring Bianca he will be able to declare his love for her and win her heart.

o Tranio - Servant of Lucentio (pretends Lucentio and studies at u)

• Biondello - Servant of Lucentio -arrives in a timely fashion and agrees to help with the deception

• A pedant (later impersonates Vincentio)

Insult all your favorite people in Elizabethian English!

follow this link to get Shakespears insult kit
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_rule.html

Shakespeare's Tounge (yeah that's a pun)

i think it's great the all of shakespeare's plays are still in their origional form, but does anyone think you would get more out of it if it read smoothly in modern english? so who likes shakespeare for the language, and who thinks the language is great, but you'd rather read his plays in our english?

Show Biz Baby

i really like the play, possibly because it's all so familiar? any one else notice it is the same as that movie TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU. can anyone think of other Shakespearian plays that have made it on to the big screen ?

Is it weird to like Kate?

I actually like Kate. Yes, she is a shrew, but it's kind of funny and I think it's cool that she's so independent. Bianca actually kind of gets on my nerves because she is miss perfect and never gets in trouble for the things that she does. Does anyone else agree?

link

conventions of the Elizabethan stage.

a. The play-within-a-play--A play performed as part of the story for some dramatic purpose. For example, in Hamlet, Hamlet asks a group of players to perform a play with a plot similar to what he suspects are the actual events of his father's murder. The main action of The Taming of the Shrew is a play-within-a-play.

b. The use of disguises-A character puts on a disguise to hide, trick, or spy on others. Shakespeare's audience accepted the fact that none of the other characters ever recognized the person disguised. Students can look for examples of this in the play.

c. Love at first sight-This is a common device in romantic comedies.
Lucentio falls head over heels the minute he sees Bianca. Students may be
asked to look for other examples in the play.

d. Fluid action-Shakespeare's stage used little in the way of set or props; everything was portable. Modern critics called Shakespeare's plays filmic, since the action can move quickly from one locale to another in much the same way a movie script can. The action of this play shifts between various locations in Padua and Petruchio's house.

e. Asides-Shakespeare's characters often make comments to each other or to the audience the other characters never hear. These asides usually comment on the action.

courtesy of kq productions and http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,82544_1_10,00.html

6th Period English

I thoroughly enjoy Doug reading the part of Sly with that ridiculous accent. What does everyone else think about it?

Friday's Homework

Finish reading Act I for Monday - expect a quiz.

Thursday Night's Homework

Read all of the Induction for Friday. There will be a quiz. For those of you missing class Thursday, you will still take the quiz Friday, so prepare. For those of you missing class Friday, you need to come see me during the day on Friday to take the quiz. Leaving school for the game is not an excuse.

Also on the quiz for third period are the characters listed in the "Dramatis Personae".

Taming of the English Department

Look at the first comment to see Kevin's info on feminist criticism.

Crossdressing

Clearly, Shakespeare's audience thought crossdressing was uproariously funny, and today we still think that's so. "White Chicks," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Bachelor Party," and "To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" show that Americans love movies with gender-bending themes. Why do you think crossdressing is viewed as so comedic? Why do you think crossdressing is mainly acceptable in mainstream movies, but homosexuality remains controversial and often incendiary? (Please be mature in your discussion or refrain from participating.)

What would your Inferno look like if you could design one?

What hell do you beleive in?

What would be the guidelines for your hell? Would it be eternal? Who would be in it?

Cathedraling

ben this is a neologism

Power Points

So, who do you think has had the best presentation so far? Why was that person's power point so interesting?

Dante Final Word - Likes and Dislikes

Final thoughts on Dante's Inferno. What you liked and didn't like. Would you be interested in redaing more of Dante's work?

Which circle of Hell in "The Inferno" did you enjoy reading the most and why?

references in popular culture to the divine commedia: da inferno

so i found what i was looking for with all the references to dante's divine comedy: the inferno. I wanted to see what songs, cartoons, and movie besides the dante film had references/connections to the inferno.I listed the many popular ones and cut it down a tad on the "view comments".There are references in tons of famous stuff like the movie 7even and clerks and in art and music including the local band cowboy mouth.

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virtual dante:
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_and_his_Divine_Comedy_in_popular_culture

my mommy got a poster of this and put it in Mrs. Klebba's room

Inferno length

do you think dante had to make up more to write or cut his poem down in order to fit into his 100 cantos?