EN 3620 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Petruchio, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Inside petruchio"s country abode, grumio is busy making a fire and complaining about the cold in preparation for his master and mistress" arrival. Petruchio"s servants, has not yet met the new bride and asks if she is as shrewish as reported. Grumio assures him that petruchio is the greater shrew of the two. When petruchio arrives he behaves tyranically, beating his servants for trivial faults. Kate begs her husband not to behave so unjustly. When they sit down to dinner petruchio claims that the meat is overcooked and storms off to bed with. He reappears and explains his intention to tame the shrew by out-shrewing her: he will mistreat her and deprive her of what she needs, all under the guise of kindness and love. Thus, by insisting that neither her food nor her bed are worthy of her, he will wear out her spirit with lack of nourishment and sleep.
