No Fear Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 2, Page 3
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Mistress Bianca, bless you with such grace
As 'longeth to a lover’s blessèd
case!
Nay, I have ta'en you napping, gentle love,
And have forsworn you with Hortensio.
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Miss Bianca, may you be blessed with all the happiness you
deserve. No, I’ve caught you out, my dear. You’re
busted. Hortensio and I have given you up.
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BIANCA
Tranio, you jest. But have you both forsworn me?
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BIANCA
You can’t mean it, Tranio! Have you both really given me
up?
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Mistress, we have.
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Yes, ma'am, we have.
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LUCENTIO
Then we are rid of
Litio.
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LUCENTIO
So Litio’s out of the picture.
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I' faith, he’ll have a lusty widow now
That shall be wooed and wedded in a day.
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He’s going after a young widow. He says he’ll
court and win her in a day.
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BIANCA
God give him joy!
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BIANCA
Well, good for him!
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Ay, and he’ll tame her.
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Yeah, and he’s going to tame her.
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BIANCA
He says so, Tranio?
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BIANCA
Is that what he says?
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Faith, he is gone unto the taming school.
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Yep. He’s gone to study at the taming school.
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BIANCA
The taming school? What, is there such a place?
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BIANCA
The taming school? Is there such a place?
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Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master,
That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long
To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.
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Yes, ma'am. Petruchio runs it. There he teaches piles of
tricks for taming a shrew and her
tongue.
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Enter BIONDELLO
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BIONDELLO
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