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 ⓘ
The Woman’s Prize ⓘ
antagonist Petruchio ⓘ
associatedPlaywright Beaumont and Fletcher canon ⓘ
author John Fletcher ⓘ
centralCharacter Maria ⓘ
Petruchio ⓘ
character Bianca ⓘ
Livia ⓘ
Maria ⓘ
Moroso ⓘ
Petronius ⓘ
Petruchio ⓘ
Sophocles ⓘ
countryOfOrigin England ⓘ
criticalReputation often described as proto-feminist ⓘ
dramaticContrastWith The Taming of the Shrew ⓘ
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 ⓘ
isSequelTo The Taming of the Shrew ⓘ
literaryDevice use of wit and verbal battles between spouses ⓘ
literaryMovement English Renaissance drama ⓘ
literaryPeriod Jacobean era ⓘ
linked to: Stuart period
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 ⓘ
respondsToWork The Taming of the Shrew ⓘ
setting Padua ⓘ
theme female agency ⓘ
gender roles ⓘ
marriage power dynamics ⓘ
resistance to patriarchy ⓘ

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