Yeah... For me, it still is abuse, because Petrucchio CHOSE not to, and in her place I'd be hungry and sleepy, therefore fuming with an extra amout of rage (the gimme-food-and-bed! sort).
On the other hand, I always imagined her as as someone being hungry for undivided attention - for being the first for someone she cares for. Maybe from the first live performace I've seen, where the theatre froze at her first outburst, when she yelled to her father that he had always loved Biance better, but for me the key to understand things between her and Petrucchio was attention. Petrucchio acted silly, and many times deliberately played parctical jokes on her - but he did choose her over her sister. And the rumpus about the food and the bad was about that it wasn't good enough for her? - which was obviously not true and left her hungry and angry, but still, can be perceived as a twisted kind of compliment (just like a boy in first grade who pulls your hair in lack of a better way to express himself).
But I mustt admit I fell in love with the transalation of yours, Rain... The inside jokes all around version of them is lovely, and hillarious.
Please, continoue writing these posts... And in case you run out of Shakespeare's plays,I'd love to see other dramas. Or films. Whatever. (Eg. there was a time when you quite often mentioned Orlando Furioso - but I cannot recall whether you detailed why you liked it...)
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Date: 2010-04-13 04:30 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I always imagined her as as someone being hungry for undivided attention - for being the first for someone she cares for. Maybe from the first live performace I've seen, where the theatre froze at her first outburst, when she yelled to her father that he had always loved Biance better, but for me the key to understand things between her and Petrucchio was attention. Petrucchio acted silly, and many times deliberately played parctical jokes on her - but he did choose her over her sister. And the rumpus about the food and the bad was about that it wasn't good enough for her? - which was obviously not true and left her hungry and angry, but still, can be perceived as a twisted kind of compliment (just like a boy in first grade who pulls your hair in lack of a better way to express himself).
But I mustt admit I fell in love with the transalation of yours, Rain... The inside jokes all around version of them is lovely, and hillarious.
Please, continoue writing these posts... And in case you run out of Shakespeare's plays,I'd love to see other dramas. Or films. Whatever. (Eg. there was a time when you quite often mentioned Orlando Furioso - but I cannot recall whether you detailed why you liked it...)