Witty Shrews and Shrewish Wits

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Hannah Bredar
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This essay analyzes the devices and methods of satirical discourse as they are presented by Much Ado About Nothing’s Beatrice and The Taming of the Shrew’s Katherine. By exploring shared points of contact in the “flyting” scenes between Katherine, Beatrice, and their respective suitors, I discuss how ironic, critical speech comes to be elevated as satirical wit in one play, even as it is reduced to shrewish complaint in the other. Both readings complicate conventional understandings of these plays as comedy, especially insofar as they undercut the institution associated with the genre’s successful resolution: marriage. Ado’s and Shrew’s engagement in discourses of satire, complaint, and invective offers an opportunity to recognize how these plays figure women and marriage as vehicles for a satirical critique of the period’s comedic and romantic conventions.
狡猾的怪物和狡猾的智慧
本文分析了《无事生非》中的比阿特丽斯和《驯悍记》中的凯瑟琳的讽刺话语手法。通过探索凯瑟琳、比阿特丽斯和他们各自的追求者在“飞行”场景中的共同接触点,我讨论了讽刺、批判性的言论是如何在一部剧中被提升为讽刺智慧的,即使在另一部剧中它被简化为精明的抱怨。这两种解读都使人们对这些戏剧作为喜剧的传统理解复杂化,尤其是因为它们削弱了与该类型成功解决方案相关的制度:婚姻。阿多和史鲁对讽刺、抱怨和谩骂话语的参与提供了一个机会,让我们认识到这些戏剧是如何将女性和婚姻描绘成讽刺批判这一时期喜剧和浪漫传统的工具的。
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Explorations in Renaissance Culture
Explorations in Renaissance Culture MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES-
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