Well I'm having a test tomorrow where I have to study certain lines from the Shakespeare's story, 'The Taming of the Shrew'. In the test, he will list a number of passages from the story and I will have to write who said the line, and to whom. I have to also explain the significance of the line as well as the context. I don't get what he means by context.
He gave us an example:
To: widow and Bianca
Context: wedding feast
Significance: changed, teaching others
Most of it is self-explanatory, but what are you supposed to talk about for the context? The significance part should explain the purpose and meaning of the passage, but I don't get what you should write for the context if it was already explained in the significance part. I don't get why the location/event was the context... any help/clarification? I'm not entirely clear on what context means as well as the dictionary definitions confuse me, convincing me that the context is exactly the same thing as significance...
They're not talking about the wedding feast. It only happened at the wedding feast. The passage is really long, but here is a part of it:
'Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow,
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.
It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
And in no sense is meet or amiable.
A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such as a woman oweth to her husband.
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?'
He gave us an example:
To: widow and Bianca
Context: wedding feast
Significance: changed, teaching others
Most of it is self-explanatory, but what are you supposed to talk about for the context? The significance part should explain the purpose and meaning of the passage, but I don't get what you should write for the context if it was already explained in the significance part. I don't get why the location/event was the context... any help/clarification? I'm not entirely clear on what context means as well as the dictionary definitions confuse me, convincing me that the context is exactly the same thing as significance...
They're not talking about the wedding feast. It only happened at the wedding feast. The passage is really long, but here is a part of it:
'Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow,
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.
It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,
Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,
And in no sense is meet or amiable.
A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such as a woman oweth to her husband.
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?'