Does "The Taming of the shrew" provide the audience with a fair representation of the treatment of and views towards women in the 16th and 17th centuries?

Sir Assurance, Lets each one send unto his married woman And he whose wife is most obedient to come at first when he doth send for her shall win the wager which we will propose. (The Taming Of The Shrew p107).

This stood expose to me as an excellent representation of the plays meaning, and of the views that people had towards women in the sixteenth and 17th centuries. William Shakespeares play The Taming Of The Shrew is a story intimately a wealthy Count (Pertruchio), who comes to the country of Padua to find himself a wealthy woman for a bride. He finds his bride in the clay of Katherina, a beautiful yet shrewish young Woman. The ease of the play is concentrated mainly on Pertrucio, and his amusingly ridiculous mission to tame Katherina of her stub natural, and argumentative ways. Many other ironical sub plots also accompany this main theme.

After reading and examine The Taming Of The Shrew in detail, I am going to answer this essay question, Does The Taming Of The Shrew provide the audience with a ordinary representation of the treatment of, and views towards, women in the sixteenth and 17th centuries?

To pee an intelligent piece of work, I have researched the lives of women in the sixteenth and 17th centuries.



I have also researched sources the Shakespeare himself used to spare the play.

In my essay, I am going discuss the lives of women in the 16th and 17th centuries, and how Shakespeare represented this in The Taming Of The Shrew. I am also going to discuss how the two main womanish characters (Bianca and Katherina) were made to appear in the play, and how the other characters treated them.

Shakespeare was born in 1564, and for the greater part of his life...

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