The Taming Of The Shrew - Humo

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conforms to Shakespeare’s technique of using false realities, in order to create humour. This can also be seen in the false identity that Petruchio puts forth in his quest for dominion over Kate (that of the eccentric egomaniac). However, these false realities are not enough by themselves, as the audience has nothing to go by but what they see before them, and so they are not to know that this is not Petruchio’s true personality, and so Shakespeare employs another essential element of humour: he lets the audience know what is truly transpiring, while the characters themselves remain oblivious to the truth. He does this using a soliloquy, in which Petruchio states the strategies he shall use in order to tame Kate:
She ate no meat today nor none shall she eat…and as with the meat some undeserved fault I’ll find about the making of the bed… This is the way to kill a wife with kindness…he that knows better how to tame a shrew, not let him speak
(Act IV Scene I)

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