Taste and Touch as Means of Coercion in The Taming of the Shrew
In The Taming of the Shrew, Katherina, the “shrew” of the title, is immediately and unsurprisingly described as choleric. Her suitor and later, husband, Petruccio accordingly attempts to subdue the excessive humour in her body by mitigating it with the complementary humour of melancholy. He thus tri...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/3410 |