Fighting Words - Royal Shakespeare Company
Fighting Words - Royal Shakespeare Company
Fighting Words - Royal Shakespeare Company
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Resource C: Verbal Sparring (video two)<br />
This video focuses on the first exchange between Kate and Petruchio which takes place in Act 2<br />
Scene 1 and looks at how <strong>Shakespeare</strong> uses puns and repetition.<br />
Questions for discussion<br />
We asked these questions in the video. You could choose to explore some or all of them in more<br />
detail with your pupils.<br />
• Why might Kate says she’s called Katherine?<br />
• If Petruchio had called her Katherine, might she have said she was called Kate instead?<br />
Why might she do this?<br />
• What does Petruchio do in return?<br />
• How many times does Petruchio call her Kate? How effective is this repetition? Why?<br />
• What else does Petruchio do in this speech that might annoy Kate?<br />
We have provided the full text on the next page. Text in black shows you the edited version as<br />
it appears in the video and in the Pupil Resource Pack. Text in grey shows you the text we have<br />
edited out for the video.<br />
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