Act 1, Scene 2 - Video Performance: Petruchio and Grumio, Lines 28-42

Petruchio and Grumio, Lines 28-42

Performance Videos

Act 1,

Scene 2

Lines 28-42

Petruchio and Grumio perform lines 28-42 of Act 1, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 1.2 Performance: Petruchio and Grumio, Lines 28-42

Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges in Latin.

If this be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service!

Look you, sir, he bid me knock him and rap him soundly,

sir. Well, was it fit for a servant to use his master so, being

perhaps, for aught I see, two and thirty, a pip out?

Whom would to God I had well knocked at first,

Then had not Grumio come by the worst.

A senseless villain. Good Hortensio,

I bade the rascal knock upon your gate,

And could not get him for my heart to do it.

Knock at the gate? O heavens! Spake you not these

words plain: 'Sirrah, knock me here, rap me here, knock

me well, and knock me soundly'? And come you now

with, 'knocking at the gate'?

Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you.