In my Drama course, we have been reading The Taming of the Shrew and for our action project we were assigned to write a sonnet addressing a character in the Taming of the Shrew. The purpose of this action project was to make a commentary on gender roles by addressing one of the characters in the play, The Taming of the Shrew. I enjoyed writing this sonnet.
Below is my sonnet and a video of me performing the sonnet
How shall I see thee from the modern day?
Do you have some relevance to me?
Your change of heart, did you really feel that way?
You were mewed so easily
I can’t imagine behaving as you did,
Your final monologue just made me mad:
“Wives should do as their husbands bid,”
In our time these bondmaids are simply sad.
When we talk about Petruchio’s Kate,
We can take a lesson for our lives.
To not be doomed to Katherine’s fate
And be partners, not merely wives.
When to Shakespeare’s plays we turn,
Let it be literature, not life, we learn.
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