The Taming of the Shrew ends with a long speech from the “tamed” Kate to her husband Petruchio. In front of her sister and her brother-in-law, her husband’s friend and his new wife, and her father, Kate praises Petruchio’s manly virtues and celebrates woman’s submissive position. “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, / Thy head, thy sovereign: one that cares for thee,” she says to the other wives present. “I am ashamed that women are so simple / To offer war where they should kneel for peace; / Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway / When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.” Kate ends the speech on her knees before her husband, publicly offering him her hand to step on, should he request it. She tells other wives to do likewise: “place your hand below your husband’s foot, / In token of which duty, if he please, / My hand is ready, may it do him ease.”
Wowow. That was incredible. How you weaved through Victorian era dramas to Shakespeare and through religion to state the unconscious opposite that a sacred “no” requires us to also value an enthusiastic “yes”.
I especially loved this: “The cure for shame isn’t pride, its apparent opposite, but humility”. What a powerful statement.
Wowow. That was incredible. How you weaved through Victorian era dramas to Shakespeare and through religion to state the unconscious opposite that a sacred “no” requires us to also value an enthusiastic “yes”.
I especially loved this: “The cure for shame isn’t pride, its apparent opposite, but humility”. What a powerful statement.
"The richness possible in a marriage that has self-giving as its very foundation" is the essence of Pope John Paul II's "Theology of Marriage."