{"id":2477,"date":"2013-10-24T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2477"},"modified":"2013-10-24T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:24:29","slug":"the-taming-of-the-shrew-act-v-scene-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2477","title":{"rendered":"The Taming of the Shrew; Act V, Scene ii"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Taming of the Shrew.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 5, Scene 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Katherina<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our interview with Gabra Zackman<\/a>)<\/p>\n

(Click here to see the First Folio version<\/a>)<\/p>\n

(Click here to see the\u00a0fully scanned version<\/a>)<\/p>\n

135 \u00a0Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow,
\n136 \u00a0And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,
\n137 \u00a0To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:
\n138 \u00a0It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
\n139 \u00a0Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
\n140 \u00a0And in no sense is meet or amiable.
\n141 \u00a0A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
\n142 \u00a0Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
\n143 \u00a0And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
\n144 \u00a0Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
\n145 \u00a0Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
\n146 \u00a0Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
\n147 \u00a0And for thy maintenance commits his body
\n148 \u00a0To painful labour both by sea and land,
\n149 \u00a0To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
\n150 \u00a0Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
\n151 \u00a0And craves no other tribute at thy hands
\n152 \u00a0But love, fair looks and true obedience;
\n153 \u00a0Too little payment for so great a debt.
\n154 \u00a0Such duty as the subject owes the prince
\n155 \u00a0Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
\n156 \u00a0And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
\n157 \u00a0And not obedient to his honest will,
\n158 \u00a0What is she but a foul contending rebel
\n159 \u00a0And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
\n160 \u00a0I am ashamed that women are so simple
\n161 \u00a0To offer war where they should kneel for peace;
\n162 \u00a0Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,
\n163 \u00a0When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
\n164 \u00a0Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
\n165 \u00a0Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
\n166 \u00a0But that our soft conditions and our hearts
\n167 \u00a0Should well agree with our external parts?
\n168 \u00a0Come, come, you froward and unable worms!
\n169 \u00a0My mind hath been as big as one of yours,
\n170 \u00a0My heart as great, my reason haply more,
\n171 \u00a0To bandy word for word and frown for frown;
\n172 \u00a0But now I see our lances are but straws,
\n173 \u00a0Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,
\n174 \u00a0That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
\n175 \u00a0Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
\n176 \u00a0And place your hands below your husband’s foot:
\n177 \u00a0In token of which duty, if he please,
\n178 \u00a0My hand is ready; may it do him ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Taming of the Shrew.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 5, Scene 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Katherina (This text is featured in our interview with Gabra Zackman) (Click here to see the First Folio version) (Click here to see the\u00a0fully scanned version) 135 \u00a0Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow, 136 \u00a0And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, 137 \u00a0To wound<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2477","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-DX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2477\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}