Poetry for Petruchio
My classmates and I are in a Humanities class called Drama for our final term of school this year. The name of the class says it all. We just went on an F.E to take a tour of the Goodman theater just recently. Up until now, we have been reading Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew. Unlike Shakespeare's other plays, which are mostly revolved around courtship, this play is revolved around marriage and how unequal it was between men and women.
For our first action project for this term, we wrote a sonnet directed to a character of our choosing from the play and give them some sort of advice related to marriage in that time. The sonnet must include 4 vocab words we learned from Shakespeare when reading the play, a quote from the play, and our own thoughts on marriage during that time. The character I chose to write a sonnet to was Petruchio, a traveler who stumbled across an event that lead him to cruelly tame a shrew called Katharina. We all had to put as much emotion as we could into reading our sonnets on camera through voice and body language. I hope you enjoy!
Sonnet Text
Petruchio, son of Antonio,
Why do you treat women like property?
It’s your fault you put Kate in this great woe.
You can’t only do this for the dowry.
Love is more than money and poesy.
You must care for your wife and be suffice.
In order to find true love, learn from me.
Reject and receive a fate not so nice.
You say, “I will be master of mine own.”
Don’t view her as an object that cowers.
Embossing Kate made her brittle as bone.
Next time, do not torture her for hours.
Petruchio, you are a cruel fellow.
Tame Kate with a method much more mellow.
For our first action project for this term, we wrote a sonnet directed to a character of our choosing from the play and give them some sort of advice related to marriage in that time. The sonnet must include 4 vocab words we learned from Shakespeare when reading the play, a quote from the play, and our own thoughts on marriage during that time. The character I chose to write a sonnet to was Petruchio, a traveler who stumbled across an event that lead him to cruelly tame a shrew called Katharina. We all had to put as much emotion as we could into reading our sonnets on camera through voice and body language. I hope you enjoy!
Petruchio, son of Antonio,
Why do you treat women like property?
It’s your fault you put Kate in this great woe.
You can’t only do this for the dowry.
Love is more than money and poesy.
You must care for your wife and be suffice.
In order to find true love, learn from me.
Reject and receive a fate not so nice.
You say, “I will be master of mine own.”
Don’t view her as an object that cowers.
Embossing Kate made her brittle as bone.
Next time, do not torture her for hours.
Petruchio, you are a cruel fellow.
Tame Kate with a method much more mellow.
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