Act 4, Scene 2 - Video Performance: Tranio and Merchant, Lines 72a-87

Tranio and Merchant, Lines 72a-87

Performance Videos

Act 4,

Scene 2

Lines 72-87

Tranio and Merchant perform lines 72a-87 of Act 4, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 4.2 Performance: Tranio and Merchant, Lines 72a-82

God save you, sir!

And you, sir. You are welcome.

Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?

Sir, at the farthest for a week or two,

But then up farther, and as far as Rome,

And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.

What countryman, I pray?

Of Mantua.

Of Mantua, sir? Marry, God forbid!

And come to Padua, careless of your life?

My life, sir? How, I pray? For that goes hard.

'Tis death for any one in Mantua

To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?

Your ships are stayed at Venice, and the Duke,

For private quarrel 'twixt your Duke and him,

Hath published and proclaimed it openly.

'Tis marvel, but that you are but newly come,

You might have heard it else proclaimed about.