"The Taming of the Shrew" Act 4 Scene 5

Here is the published video:
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Summary:

In this video, we are informing that Shakespeare is trying to reinforce gender roles due to the male manipulation and men’s strong desire for women. We reinforced it by adding color to our costumes. For example, we had the actress, Amy as Katherine wearing a pink sweater with a skirt to show a bit of feminism and we gave Petruchio a bit of facial hair along with a dark sweater to show a bit of masculinity. Also at the beginning we had a sword for Petruchio and Katherine was holding a fan. Not only did we enforce clothing wear in the two genders, but we also use strong tone to strengthen gender roles. For example, Petruchio played as Annisaa, attempted to have a strong, demanding, manipulative and mischievous tone. Katherine played by Amy, in the beginning showed stubbornness but afterwards under Petruchio’s suggestion, Katherine attempted to have a “girly” or feminine, weak, which shows men authority towards women. Towards the end of the video, to enforce our idea of reinforcement of gender roles we included a mini victory nod and cheer to applaud the shrew, Katherine, being finally tamed to show male dominance in relationships.