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Stuff that happens in the play

Stuff That Happens In The Induction

• A Lord finds a drunken tinker, Christopher Sly, asleep on the ground.


• The Lord decides to play a trick on Sly by telling him that he has had amnesia for fifteen years and that he's really a Lord.


• Sly eventually accepts his new role as a Lord and all of the amenities that come with it.


• Traveling players arrive to present a "pleasant comedy" set in Italy for the "Lord Christopher Sly."

Stuff That Happens in the Pleasant Comedy

• Lucentio (along with his servants Tranio and Biondello) arrives in Padua to study.


• Baptista, a merchant from Padua, has two daughters eligible for marriage: Kate, "of devilish spirit" and Bianca, "sacred and sweet." Baptista decrees that no one can marry Bianca until Kate is wed.


• Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, who is also being wooed by Hortensio and old Gremio.


• To win Bianca, Lucentio disguises himself as a Latin teacher; Hortensio disguises himself as a music teacher.


• Lucentio's servant, Tranio, disguises himself as Lucentio to woo Bianca openly for his master (who is now disguised as a Latin teacher).


• Petruchio arrives in Padua to find a rich wife. Hearing of the shrewish Kate and her generous dowry, Petruchio vows to marry her.


• Petruchio meets Kate; after a noisy exchange, Petruchio announces that they will be married on Sunday.


• Petruchio, dressed in ridiculous clothes, arrives late on the wedding day. After the ceremony he refuses to stay for the wedding feast. Instead, he whisks Kate off to his home in Verona.


• Tranio (disguised as Lucentio) outbids old Gremio for Bianca's hand in marriage while the real Lucentio disguised as a Latin teacher) wins Bianca's love.


• Tranio finds someone to mpersonate Lucentio's father, Vincentio; this imposter meets with Baptista and consents to the marriage of Lucentio and Bianca.


• The real Vincentio then shows up.


• Chaos, weddings, and wagers ensue.