What are your opinions on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
It's famous portrayal of married life causes some controversy nowadays. [Huh? Among Trads? Which ones?] Do you think that its portrayal of marriage life [accords] with Catholic teaching?
It's a
play (strictly speaking, a play within a play). What's more, it's a
comedy.What's still more, it's not about married life at all; it's about a most unusual courtship. What's
still still more, nobody's compelling anyone else to read it
* or buy a ticket to a production of it. In other words, it's not a species of ObamaCare.
But most of all, have you noticed that in this
comedy, Petruchio and Katherina aren't married until she gives her consent. Even then, Petruchio's drunkenness and his assault upon the officiating priest might be considered
** grounds for questioning the validity of the wedding ceremony. But if you did, you'd be screaming to the world at large that you don't see that this is a comedy.
Did I mention that the play is a comedy? Aren't there enough noncomedic matters to be concerned about in 21st-century America? What's more (did I say that earlier?), didn't someone that everyone hereabouts respects say something to the effect that each and every day comes with so many woes and problems that we need not go hunting for more?
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*Given all the time required in present-day public high schools to teach the novels of Alice Walker and the plays of LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, the odds of
TTotS being required reading for a student not taking a feminist-oriented Shakespeare course in college or grad school are vanishingly small.
**By literal-minded folks with little or no sense of humor and far too much time on their hands.