![]() Tranio-Lucentio sets out to find someone to impersonate Vincentio and provide the guarantee. Tranio-Lucentio outbids Gremio and is awarded Bianca, provided that Vincentio, Lucentio’s father, will guarantee the dowry. Katherine’s wedding is arranged, and Baptista hears the offers that Gremio and Tranio (as Lucentio) make for Bianca. Petruchio then lies to Baptista, insisting that Katherine loves him but that the couple have agreed that she will pretend to dislike him in public. Petruchio and Katherine, left alone, enter into a furious bout of wordplay. Baptista insists that Petruchio must get Katherine’s love. Tranio, impersonating Lucentio, announces his wish to marry Bianca, and Petruchio his desire to marry Katherine. ![]() Act 2, scene 1 Baptista stops Katherine from abusing Bianca and receives a visit from Petruchio, who presents Hortensio (disguised as Litio, a music teacher) Gremio introduces Lucentio (disguised as Cambio, a teacher of languages).Gremio, Hortensio, and Tranio (as Lucentio) agree to help Petruchio win Katherine. Last of all comes Tranio, now impersonating Lucentio and declaring his intention to woo Bianca. Gremio appears with Lucentio, who is disguised as a teacher named Cambio. He agrees also to present Hortensio, in disguise, to Baptista as a music teacher named Litio. His friend Hortensio suggests that Petruchio woo Katherine. Act 1, scene 2 Petruchio, with his servant Grumio, has just arrived in Padua.Meanwhile Lucentio has fallen in love with Bianca and decides to have Tranio impersonate him so that Lucentio, in the disguise of a schoolmaster, can secretly woo Bianca. Bianca’s suitors decide to search for a husband for Katherine. They witness an encounter between Baptista and his daughters, in which Baptista announces that Bianca cannot marry until the elder and bad-tempered Katherine does. Act 1, scene 1 Lucentio has come with his servant Tranio to Padua to study philosophy.The lord’s page, who impersonates the wife, persuades Sly to watch the play that is about to begin. After they inform him that he has a beautiful wife, he asks to see her. When he demands his usual ale and beef, the lord and servants tell him that he has been suffering from delusions. Induction, scene 2 The newly awakened Sly is offered delicacies and fine clothes.A troupe of traveling actors present themselves to the lord, who, by way of further elaborating his trick, instructs them to stage a play for Sly. ![]() The lord orders his servants to place Sly in a luxurious bedroom and, when the beggar awakes, to tell him he is a great lord who has long been out of his mind. A great lord, returning from the hunt, finds Sly in a drunken sleep and decides to play an elaborate trick on him.
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