Study guide for The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare ...

Cell #21. Taming of the Shrew. Act 2, Scene 1. “To find a Vincentio.”“Tranio. . . ’Tis in my head to do my master good:I see no reason but supposed LucentioMust get a father, call’d ‘supposed Vincentio;’And that’s a wonder: fathers commonlyDo get their children; but in this case of wooing,A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.”Tranio is talking to himself. He says that he must get someone to actas “Lucentio’s” father, who will be called “Vincentio.”What will Lucentio’s father be called?In the quote above, the word cunning nearly means:a) craftinessb) slangc) punningd) waitingDo you think that Baptista will find out that “Lucentio” is actually“Tranio”?The following line, when Tranio is saying that fathers usually get sonsinstead of sons getting fathers, “fathers commonly do get their