Reseach for Unit 5

We had been set a task where we have to perform duologues preferebly taking place in living rooms of those willing to watch. We first had been given the opportunity to read through a couple of different Shakespeare duologues ranging from Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and so on and so forth. Once we had made up our mind on what duologue we may have wanted to do, we were paired up, and I had been given the reponsibility of learning the duologue between Petruchiuo and Katherine from Taming of the Shrew.

As I was paired up with Grace, we had decided to go ahead and research about the play and scene to allow us to have brief knowledge of the story and allow us to interpret ideas for the scene. A short synopsis of the play itself based around my character and Grace's is that Petruchiuo is madly in love with Katherine although she has a brief annoyance with him before the scene begins. However, by the end of the play, Petruchiuo manages to get her hand in marriage and they become successfully engaged.

Furthermore the research we had carried out by watching others performing our scene helped fuelled our interpretations. Our base idea was to have Grace walk in to the room/corridor which led to me catching her off guard with the first line I proclaim, 'Good Morrow Kate, for that is your name I hear'. According the source off YouTube, the scene is incredibly exaggerated which led to our further interpretation where I am obsessed with touching her over and over slowly increasing her anger. However one factor that may restrict us from expanding our scene to total exaggeration is the space of the person who had decided to allow us to perform. So we had decided to include the exaggerated parts but to a minor level adapting to any space given to us.