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How To Tame A Shrew (11 Things I Hate About Her) An Actor's Method To Characterizing Petruchio In The Taming Of The Shrew, Robert J. Facio
How To Tame A Shrew (11 Things I Hate About Her) An Actor's Method To Characterizing Petruchio In The Taming Of The Shrew, Robert J. Facio
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Taming of the Shrew is an early comedy that exposes the oddities we take for granted: curious conventions, wild assumptions, gender roles, relationships, social status, fashion, and everything else we know so defectively. The given circumstances of the script and Petruchio are specific in choice, yet broad in interpretation. Petruchio, the catalyst behind Katherine’s character arc, needed to not only be believable in his ways, but likeable by the audience.
This thesis examines the process required to successfully develop and bring to life the character of Petruchio to our modern audience. It includes historical background information on William Shakespeare …