Taming Of The Shrew
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The : Appearance Versus Reality
Have you ever been hit in the groin and had someone there laughing at you? This essay is not about that. It is about how Shakespeare uses many different indications to develop appearance versus reality. Three of them are characters, symbolism, and plot. I will ex ....
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.... him for the real Lucentio's personal gain. He concocts a false tale of how the merchant will surely be put to death if anyone knows where he is from. His false tale is the following:
"‘Tis death for anyone in Mantua to come to Padua.
Know you not the cause?
Your ships are stayed at Venice, and the Duke,
For private quarrel ‘twixt your duke and him.
Hath published and proclaimed it openly.
Tis marvel, but that you are but newly come,
You might have heard it else pr ....
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