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Examine the different ways in which Shakespeare presents issues connected with marriage and male and female relationships in the play The Taming of the Shrew.
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Sophie Johnstone 12CO Examine the different ways in which Shakespeare presents issues connected with marriage and male and female relationships in the play The Taming of the Shrew "The Taming of the Shrew" is a complex play, which involves a taming plot and the theme of appropriate behaviour within marriage in Shakespeare's time, and does so through the contrasting relationships of Petruchio and Katherina, and Lucentio and Bianca. Shakespeare highlights how important money is to people when committing themselves to marriage. This is portrayed through Petruchio, "That you shall be my wife; your dowry' greed on;" Shakespeare has made a point here of emphasising to the audience that money is a necessity for marriage. Shakespeare also draws the audience's attention to the character's values, which, is mainly money and social status. Money was so important as social status was a concern and without money you usually had none. He illustrates this again through Petruchio and his...
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