Introduction:
The aim of this essay is to provide an analysis of the character of
Bianca in the comedy The Taming of the Shrew. The play was written by William
Shakespeare around 1592, in
London and it
deals with the theme of marriage, about how women should behave as wives in
Elizabethan times.
Bianca is
not the main character of the play, is Katherine, but she is a very interesting
character, she is the sister of the “shrew” and her evolution along
the play shows that, although in Elizabethan times women were oppressed by men
and had very little rights, they were able to manipulate men in their own
benefit in the same way than nowadays.
Academic year 2006/2007
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