Love in The Taming of the Shrew

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Love in The Taming of the Shrew

Wonder, for a moment, what Shakespeare means when he uses the word “love”, if it really does exist in any of the relationships in this play, particularly between Petruccio and Katherine. Is love not a certainty?

Such winds scatters young men through the world

To seek their fortunes farther than at home,

Where small experience grows. But in in a few,

Signor Hortensio, thus it stands with me:

Antonio, my father, is deceased,

And I have thrust myself into this maze

Happily to wive and thriveas best I may.

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,

And so I am come abroad to see the world.

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Upon the death of his father who cared for him, he is in search of a wife so that he can live a desired lifestyle upon her fortunes. He is not desirous of love, or lust, or infatuation, b...

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