Taming of the Shrew Crossword Puzzle Review

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Across
  1. 2. Kate and Petruchio are both compared to the ___________
  2. 6. Author’s first name
  3. 9. Old and easily manipulated fool
  4. 10. Speech given while actor is alone on stage
  5. 11. Hortensio's wife
  6. 12. Kate's strongest humor
  7. 15. Petruchio ______________ Kate of food and sleep
  8. 18. Oldest suitor
  9. 19. Kate and Petruchio first meet in the __________ scene
  10. 21. A loud ____________ is heard at the end of Kate's wedding service
  11. 23. Animal references in the play create this
  12. 26. Lucentio's alias
  13. 27. Alternative meaning for "kates"
  14. 28. Type of play TOTS is
  15. 30. Kate warns Petruchio that she is like this animal
  16. 32. Kate's greatest fear
  17. 34. Remark made, but not heard by all actors on stage
  18. 37. Kate breaks this over someone's head
  19. 38. The play's climax is the _______ and _______ discussion
  20. 41. Shakespeare writes in this meter
  21. 42. First section of the play
  22. 43. Food, time, and the tailor are all examples of ___________ that Petruchio uses
  23. 44. Kate’s critical metaphor for an angry woman
Down
  1. 1. What Petruchio most values in a wife
  2. 3. Lucentio's father
  3. 4. Author’s last name
  4. 5. Hortensio's alias
  5. 7. Petruchio: "Will you, _____ you, I will marry you."
  6. 8. Play's setting (more specific than #34)
  7. 12. The husbands wager 100 ______
  8. 13. Town drunk
  9. 14. Setting (time period)
  10. 16. Kate's final speech refers to husbands as __________
  11. 17. ______ is beaten for not knocking on a door
  12. 20. Another word for a "froward woman"
  13. 22. Setting (place; more general than #27)
  14. 24. Petruchio believes Kate must learn to be _________________
  15. 25. Kate's dowry is __________ thousand crowns
  16. 27. Kate threatens to comb someone’s noddle with this
  17. 29. Petruchio's model for taming Kate
  18. 31. Insult: "He that is ________ thinks the world goes round."
  19. 33. Uses exaggerated, improbable situations to create humor
  20. 35. Unrhyming answer the #
  21. 36. The ending of the play is an example of ___________ irony
  22. 39. Tranio's alias
  23. 40. Kate and Bianca's father