Earticle

초록

영어

This paper tries to read the power relation between gender and class in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio’s goal is to tame the shrew, Katherina into a submissive wife. Petruchio deprived Katherina of food and sleep, and then didn’t allow her to wear clothes for her social status as a gentlewoman. Secondly he controlled Katherina’s “scolding tongue” which makes her renown for shrew, “Katherina the curst”. By changing her name from “Katherina the curst” into “plain Kate”. He thought he could transform her identity. Ironically Petruchio’s linguistic maneuver opened the possibility that let Katherina speak in public by imitating Petruchio’s rhetoric. In the final scene of the wedding banquet, Katherina proved herself a loving wife, ideal model wife by imitating ideal wifely submission. Katherina’s long speech displays “the foolishness of the ideal of womanly behavior” enforced by patriarchal ideology. Her intentional parody reveals Petruchio’s failure to tame Katherina into a submissive wife. Katherina played her role as performance. Actually Katherina is a player because Shakespeare lets play-within-a-play. Taming of the shrew is the play within the Induction. Katherina is a player playing Katherina. Like switching a mask, persona, identity is not a fixed or original one, rather performative in the process.

목차

I. 말괄량이는 어떻게 생겨났을까?
 II. 호명, 담론의 힘
 III. 역설적 복종
 IV. 패러디의 전복성
 V. 또 다른 가면 놀이 속에서
 Works Cited
 Abstract

키워드

저자

• 황지혜 [ Hwang Ji-Hye | 신라대학교 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810