“Woodcock”Cultural ContextAct 1,Scene 2Lines 155-156An explanation of the word “woodcock” in Act 1, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio-as-Cambio Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir. Gremio O this learning, what a thing it is! A woodcock is a bird of the snipe family, proverbial for its stupidity.
