To tame or Not to tame

It's the first unit of the humanities’ course, Drama, and its already proving to be challenging. We have read William Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew. This play was written by Shakespeare from 1590 to 1592 and is about the patriarchal society that was popular back then. The title describes the play very well, in that it's mainly about the complete degradation of a woman who had her own thoughts and didn't take all the crap people gave her; this is the portion that makes that woman a shrew. A man named Petruchio seeks to marry her for her dowry and also makes it his mission to "tame" her. In the end, he is successful. He got the dowry and tamed the difficult shrew. The action project for this course was interesting because we had to create a Shakespearean sonnet addressing a character of choice from the play. I chose to write mine on Petruchio and also chose to address the "shrew" at the end as well.

Below is a recording of my reading the sonnet and a little farther down from that, I’ve included the script for easier interpretation.

JH · Shakespearean Sonnet

Such taming of a shrew makes you quite low.
Sir Petruchio, it seems you are lost.
The ages are surely different though,

Even so respect has not any cost.


A woman is no tool for amusement,
Nor an animal that needs to be tamed.
Thy actions seem as though they are useless.
No one's heart should think for others’, be slain.


“What dowry shall I have with her to wife?”
You doth not marry her for the riches.
One shall marry for the love of his life.
Least thou not a knave; showed true intentions.


Kate, know your worth. You must be vexed, it cuts.
Thy words, sounds and actions are like gamuts.