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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instanceOf Jacobean stage comedy
play
sequel play
alternateTitle The Tamer Tamed NERFINISHED
The Woman’s Prize NERFINISHED
antagonist Petruchio NERFINISHED
associatedPlaywright Beaumont and Fletcher canon
author John Fletcher NERFINISHED
centralCharacter Maria NERFINISHED
Petruchio NERFINISHED
character Bianca NERFINISHED
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
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
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
gender roles
marriage power dynamics
resistance to patriarchy

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John Fletcher notableWork The Woman’s Prize, or The Tamer Tamed