Join us LIVE on Sunday, Sept 15 at 4pm E | 1pm P as Professor Michael Delahoyde explores the original rom-com, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. This play has dismayed a majority of audience members and readers who, like so many characters in the play itself, bring along their own assumptions and fail to look beneath stereotypes.
In the set-up, a drunkard is tricked into thinking he’s a lord about to watch a play. The show features the power couple – Petruchio and Katherina, or Kate – who overshadow the other characters, several of them trying to woo Kate’s supposedly sweet, mild sister Bianca: daddy Baptista’s “treasure.” Disguises lead to chaos, but Petruchio and Kate again steal the show with their own outrageous behavior, until Kate seems to undergo a surprising change in attitude. Is it abject subjugation? Or have we all been played?
Meantime visit Dr. Delahoyde’s website to expand your knowledge of the play. And be sure to bring your questions!
Can’t make it live? Replays of previous episodes will eventually be posted on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship YouTube channel.
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We hope to see you there!
