The Taming of the Shrew Events Quotes

Induction, Scene 1

LORDI know the boy will well usurp the grace, Voice, gait, and action of a gentlewoman. I long to hear him call the drunkard husband, And how my men will stay themselves from laughter When they do...

Induction, Scene 2

Page My husband and my lord, my lord and husband, I am your wife in all obedience. SLY I know it well. (Induction.2.107-109)

Act 1, Scene 1

TRANIO, to LucentioHusht, master, here's some good pastime toward; (1.1.69)

Act 1, Scene 2

GREMIOAnd you are well met, Signior Hortensio. Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola. I promised to inquire carefully About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca, And by good fortune I have...

Act 2, Scene 1

BIONDELLOWhy, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned, a pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled, another laced; an ol...

Act 3, Scene 1

LUCENTIO Hic ibat, as I told you before, Simois, I am Lucentio, hic est, son unto Vincentio of Pisa,Sigeia tellus, disguised thus to get your love, Hic steterat, and that 'Lucentio' that comes...

Act 3, Scene 2

PETRUCHIOI will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything. And here she stands, touch...

Act 4, Scene 1

GRUMIOTell thou the tale! But hadst thou not crossed me thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard in how miry a place, how s...

Act 4, Scene 2

TRANIO Faith, he is gone unto the taming school. BIANCA The taming-school? What, is there such a place? TRANIO Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master, That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty l...

Act 4, Scene 3

KATHERINEThe more my wrong, the more his spite appears. What, did he marry me to famish me? Beggars, that come unto my father's door Upon entreaty have a present alms. If not, elsewhere they meet w...

Act 4, Scene 4

BIONDELLOMy master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke's, to bid the priest be ready to come against you come with your appendix. (4.4.104-106)

Act 4, Scene 5

KATHERINEYoung budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, Whither away, or where is thy abode? Happy the parents of so fair a child! Happier the man whom favorable stars Allot thee for his lovely be...

Act 5, Scene 1

BAPTISTA Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio? BIANCA Cambio is changed into Lucentio. LUCENTIO Love wrought these miracles. Bianca's love Made me exchange my state with Tranio, While he did bear...

Act 5, Scene 2

BAPTISTANow fair befall thee, good Petruchio! The wager thou hast won, and I will add Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns, Another dowry to another daughter, For she is changed, as she had nev...