Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Charlotte Porter;Helen A. Clarke
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play her part too?
The use of finesse in the Play (see Introduction to the Play "First Folio Edition"). Does Shakespeare's way of handling the characters and the process of taming materially differ from the way prevailing both in the crude folk tales and in "A Shrew?" Does he suggest that in both Petruchio's and Kate's case they are merely bent upon their own individual emotions until closer relation makes them join forces? What is the modern bearing of Shakespeare's way of putting the story? Partnership and co-operation _versus_ autocratic rule: Are the administrative advantages of the latter consonant with the good will and continual psychical development furthered by the former? Does the intellectual advantage rest with the user of force or with the mind that accommodates itself to force by gaining its ends by stratagem and other indirect policies? Is coercion as wise as persuasion which has no such penalties to pay? LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST |
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