Act 2, Scene 1 - Video Performance: Petruchio, Katherina, and Baptista, Lines 278-296

Petruchio, Katherina, and Baptista, Lines 278-296

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Act 2,

Scene 1

Lines 278-296

Petruchio, Katherina, and Baptista perform lines 278-296 of Act 2, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 2.1 Performance: Petruchio, Katherina, and Baptista, Lines 278-2

Now, Signor Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter?

How? But well, sir. How but well.

It were impossible I should speed amiss.

Why, how now, daughter Katherine! In your dumps?

Call you me ‘daughter’? Now, I promise you,

You have showed a tender fatherly regard

To wish me wed to one half-lunatic,

A madcup ruffian and a swearing Jack,

That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.

Father, 'tis thus. Yourself and all the world

That talked of her have talked amiss of her.

If she be curst, it is for policy,

For she's not froward, but modest as the dove;

She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;

For patience she will prove a second Grissel,

And Roman Lucrece for her chastity;

And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together,

That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.

I'll see thee hanged on Sunday first.