Fighting Words - Royal Shakespeare Company

Resource G: Rhyme (video four)
This video explores a scene between Kate and Petruchio where Petruchio uses rhyme to distract
Kate, thereby ‘winning’ this round in their conflict. It analyses how Shakespeare uses rhyme and
invites pupils to incorporate the technique into their own scene. Pupils are also asked to start
thinking about who will win their argument and how.
Resource H: Text used in Rhyme (video four)
Act 4 Scene 3
PETRUCHIO: Kate, eat apace: and now, my honey love,
Will we return unto thy father’s house
And revel it as bravely as the best,
With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things;
With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
With amber bracelets, beads and all this knavery
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