I feel perfectly free to read the “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper” speech as one of those absurdities rather than a serious homily.
This. My dream production of this play is one in which Kate and Petruchio play the final speech as some kind of inside joke - everyone else is like "heh, yeah, absolutely!" and they're sort of snickering at each other behind everyone's backs.
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Date: 2010-04-09 02:16 am (UTC)This. My dream production of this play is one in which Kate and Petruchio play the final speech as some kind of inside joke - everyone else is like "heh, yeah, absolutely!" and they're sort of snickering at each other behind everyone's backs.