Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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)

1 comment:

Kmorel said...

i still am confused about a lot of things and we are almost done reading and mrs.deckard isnt here.