How would you want your audience to respond to the character of Katherina at the beginning of the play? Explain how you would perform the role in Act 1 scene 1.

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How would you want your audience to respond to the character of Katherina at the beginning of the play? Explain how you would perform the role in Act 1 scene 1. Use the ideas from the lesson and also analysis of your last essay.I would use a thrust stage (3 sides), as that is what would have been used in Shakespeare’s time.  Also it will make the audience more included in the action, and create a more intimate environment. The audience she should see Katherina, in this scene, as moody, angry, bitter and mouthy. In this scene it should seem as though she is seeking an argument with everyone on
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stage. Also I feel in this scene she is trying to put across that she won’t conform to the ideals of the time and become someone’s wife, instead she is trying to assert her independence.From line 46 Katherina should enter first from upstage left going across to downstage right, followed by the rest of the crowd. I would be scowling as I walked, heavily across the stage, possibly huffing at something that may have been said before I entered. Katherina should be stood separate from the group, more towards centre stage, but still to the right. Throughout Baptista’s lines I ...

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