The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0080 Sunday, 10 February 2008
From: Jinny Webber <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 8 Feb 2008 00:48:20 EST
Subject: 19.0071 Petruchio's Blasphemy
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0071 Petruchio's Blasphemy
>But in conversation with the director, he revealed that his
>antipathy toward Petruchio is so start, his behavior so heinous,
>the he the director) has decided to kill him (Petruchio) at the end
>of the play.
Kill Petruchio?!! As I'm sure I'm not alone in responding: isn't that
blasphemy?
Jinny Webber
(admittedly of the school who see Kate and her blaspheming husband as
more likely to find agency-hers, and mutuality-theirs, in their marriage
than in many another couple in Shakespeare. Like say Helena and Bertram.)
[Editor's Note: I thought that the line was "Kill Claudio." "Ha. Not for
the wide world." -HMC]
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