English: Shakespeare: Shakespeare the Feminist? Taming of the shrew June 14, 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shakespeare the femenist? Taming of the shrew by Vedat Gashi The taming of the shrew by william shakespeare is a play which is ahead of its time in its views toward gender roles within society. Katherine is a woman who is intelligent, and is not afraid to assert her views on any given situation. She is paired with another obstinate character in Pertuchio. The …showed first 75 words of 1031 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1031 total…the fight of equality of the sexes. Katherine is as strong, or stronger than any woman in shakespeare's plays. The amazing thing is that she achieves this without ulterior motives such as lady Macbeth. She is an honest, bright independent woman. She is not underscored by her subservience to petruchio in public, for "the sun breaks through the darkest cloud" and so do Katherines asssets braek though the public visage of subordination to her husband.