Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Taming of The Shrew


 PETRUCHIO
  1   Verona, for a while I take my leave,
  2   To see my friends in Padua, but of all
  3   My best beloved and approved friend,
  4   Hortensio; and I trow this is his house.
  5   Here, sirrah Grumio; knock, I say.
      GRUMIO
  6   Knock, sir! whom should I knock? is there man has
  7   rebused your worship?
      PETRUCHIO
  8   Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.
      GRUMIO
  9   Knock you here, sir! why, sir, what am I, sir, that
 10   I should knock you here, sir?
      PETRUCHIO
 11   Villain, I say, knock me at this gate
 12   And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate.
      GRUMIO
 13   My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock you first,
 14   And then I know after who comes by the worst.
      PETRUCHIO
 15   Will it not be?
 16   Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it;
 17   I'll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.
           He wrings him by the ears.      GRUMIO
 18   Help, masters, help! my master is mad.
      PETRUCHIO
 19   Now, knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!


Act 1 Scene 2

I picked this scene and quotes because it's hilarious. The wordplay remind me of Abbott and Costello's "Who's On First". That skit of theirs? HILARIOUS.



Source:
http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/shrew/ShrewText12.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_gSWTQKE-0

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