A Sonnet For Katherina Minola
This is my first action project for my Humanities class called class called Drama. In this Class we read different plays and sonnets to learn the meaning behind them and how to interpret them. In this unit we read Shakespeare's play The Taming of The Shrew, about the Lady Katherina and it is set in Victorian Florence. Lady Kate is a strong willed woman who doesn't want to give into the standards that women are held to at the time, and she most diffidently doesn't want to get married. Throughout the story she is beaten down until she can no longer fight back and eventually becomes 'tamed'. For this action project we had to choose a character from The Taming of The Shrew and write a sonnet giving them advice. I chose to address Lady Kate because I wanted to speak about the strength that she proved the had but still gave up. When writing this sonnet I struggled with trying to use a Shakespearean vocabulary. I was only able to do that by going back through the play a