The taming of the shrew character profile.

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· Romantic comedy

Time and place written

· Around 1592, London

Date of first publication

· 1623

Tone

· The overall tone of the play is light and comic, though the exploration of larger social questions, such as the proper relation of the sexes in marriage, lends much of the comedy a more serious tone.

Settings (Time)

· Unspecific, though presumably sometime during the Italian Renaissance

Settings (Place)

· Padua, a city-state in Italy prominent during the Renaissance

Major conflict

· Petruccios attempt to tame Katherine; that is, to assert his authority in their marriage and overcome her hotheaded resistance to playing the role of his wife

Rising action

· Petruccio and Katherines early verbal conflicts; Katherines many scenes of shrewish behavior, including her attack on Bianca; the various disguises and subterfuges of the subplot; Katherine and Petruccios comical wedding

Climax

· There is no single moment of intense action in the play, but rather a long process of development culminating in