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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Ranald, Margaret L.
Affiliation: Assistant Professor Of English City, University Of New York

Character Analyses: The Taming Of The Shrew

Katherine:

She is the central character of the entire play and is unusually well
drawn for a play that is essentially a farce. She is reputed to be a shrew,
but in effect this is only her outward appearance. The chief difficulty with
Katherine is that she is considerably more intelligent and much wittier than
anyone else around her. As a result she is forced through sheer frustration
to act in a manner ...

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