“He'll rail in his rope/robe tricks” : l'injure comme feu d'artifices dans The Taming of the Shrew
This article reinterprets the mysterious “He'll rail in his rope-tricks” (The Taming of the Shrew, 1.2.110) by relating it to the sartorial aspects of the play. One scene epitomizes the complex relationships between insult and artifice in The Taming of the Shrew: the tailor scene (4.3) during w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/1807 |
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| Summary: | This article reinterprets the mysterious “He'll rail in his rope-tricks” (The Taming of the Shrew, 1.2.110) by relating it to the sartorial aspects of the play. One scene epitomizes the complex relationships between insult and artifice in The Taming of the Shrew: the tailor scene (4.3) during which Petruchio abuses the unfortunate tailor and his art in order to hurt Kate. Reading this scene in the light of Grumio's commentary and notably the words “ropetricks”, “figures“ and “disfigures”, we show that behind the artifice, behind the comic trick and farce of this scene of insult, Shakespeare presents us with a disfigured Kate, a puppet that is moved by a ventriloquist, Petruchio. We examine how this scene plays on the relationships between sartorial and linguistic forms of artifice, and suggest that one can hear “robe-tricks” in these “rope-tricks”. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |