The Woman’s Prize, or The Tamer Tamed
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The Woman’s Prize, or The Tamer Tamed is a Jacobean stage comedy by John Fletcher that serves as a witty, feminist-leaning sequel and response to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jacobean stage comedy
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play ⓘ sequel play ⓘ |
| alternateTitle |
The Tamer Tamed
NERFINISHED
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The Woman’s Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonist | Petruchio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPlaywright | Beaumont and Fletcher canon ⓘ |
| author | John Fletcher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralCharacter |
Maria
NERFINISHED
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Petruchio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Bianca
NERFINISHED
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Livia NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria NERFINISHED ⓘ Moroso NERFINISHED ⓘ Petronius NERFINISHED ⓘ Petruchio NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophocles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| criticalReputation | often described as proto-feminist ⓘ |
| dramaticContrastWith | The Taming of the Shrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | stage play ⓘ |
| dramaticMode | comedy of manners ⓘ |
| dramaticStructure | comedy in five acts ⓘ |
| dramaticTradition | city comedy tradition ⓘ |
| firstKnownPerformanceDate | early 17th century ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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feminist comedy ⓘ |
| influencedBy | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSequelTo | The Taming of the Shrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryDevice | use of wit and verbal battles between spouses ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | English Renaissance drama ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryRelation | revisionist response to Shakespeare ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | part of the Fletcher canon studied in Renaissance drama courses ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | role reversal of taming plot ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Petruchio’s new wife Maria and other women band together to tame him and assert their rights ⓘ |
| portrays |
a husband being tamed by his wife
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negotiation of marital contracts and conditions ⓘ women organizing collective resistance to husbands ⓘ |
| protagonist | Maria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| respondsToWork | The Taming of the Shrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Padua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
female agency
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gender roles ⓘ marriage power dynamics ⓘ resistance to patriarchy ⓘ |
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