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ACtiVitY 3.3
My notes
interpret the text using Close reading
Learning Target
• Express inferences and conclusions drawn based on close reading of a drama.
Read and annotate
Read the excerpt from Act 1, Scene II, of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Annotate the text as you read.
■ Use the My Notes area to write questions or ideas you have about the drama. ■ Underline words and phrases that tell about the characters.
■ Put a star next to the plan the characters come up with.
■ Put exclamation marks next to figures of speech that are especially effective. ■ Circle unknown words.
from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
chunk 1
Act i, scene ii
Padua. Before HORTENSIO’S house
Enter PETRUCHIO and his man GRUMIO, and HORTENSIO
Hortensio: Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour’d wife?
Thou’dst thank me but a little for my counsel.
And yet I’ll promise thee she shall be rich,
And very rich : but thou’rt too much my friend, And I’ll not wish thee to her.
Petruchio: Signior Hortensio, ‘twixt such friends as we Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know
One rich enough to be Petruchio’s wife,
As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,
Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love,
As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrew d As Socrates’ Xanthippe or a worse,
She moves me not, or not removes, at least Affection’s edge in me, were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic seas.
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
If wealthily, then happily in Padua.
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