The Taming of the Shrew - What is the view of love and marriage presented in The Taming of The Shrew? Which of the married couples do you think will have the most successful marriage and why?

... The Taming of the Shrew What is the view of love and marriage presented in The Taming of The Shrew? Which of the married couples do you think will have the most successful marriage and why? In this play the issues of love and marriage have a great significance. All the relationships in the play are all linked to possible marriages whether directly, e.g. Petrutchio and Katherina, or indirectly, e.g. Baptista and Hortensio (Bianca's suitor). Every character who marries or has anything to do with arranging a marriage in the Taming of the Shrew has a different attitude to marriage itself. Because the taming of the shrew is a play and not a novel it is not told from a specific point of view and the presentation of all the characters has a lot of importance in the way the play is interpreted. The views of love and marriage are expressed differently

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