It is the adolescent daughter Suzanne hot temper, Shakespeare every time she returns from London, as soon as she enters the house, she will complain about the dirty mess of the traffic situation in The United Kingdom, the daughter opens her mouth to scare his father, it turns out that she likes a boy, hoping that people invite her to participate in social activities, the result is that people are not invited, so the anger is very large, sent to her father.
Suzanne sang pop songs when she was happy, which was the work of the musician of the time, Thomas Morley, and Shakespeare was very dismissive of this musician. The daughter confronted Shakespeare and said that Thomas Morley was the greatest and most amazing writer in Renaissance England, and I was willing to die for him, and I was a big fan of him.
Shakespeare returned home from another arduous journey and told his daughter to bring him some food, and the daughter went straight back, and you went to get it yourself, I want to die, you shut up.
Shakespeare was intimidated by his daughter as soon as he entered the house. The wife told him that her daughter was going through the troubles of a woman every month, and Shakespeare asked with a grin, hearing that your old friend was coming. The daughter said, you shut up. Shakespeare was bored. So the family discussed Suzanne's character, a grumpy girl, willful and bold and uncontrollable. Who would marry this little?
The eldest daughter, Suzanne, is a humble woman, and the younger daughter Judith is a lady. If the eldest daughter can't marry, she will be considered a witch, what can I do? Shakespeare came up with an idea to design the storyline of the comedy "Taming", a family with two daughters, the eldest daughter is hot and fierce, and the younger daughter is gentle and virtuous. So the father announced that only by marrying the eldest daughter could the younger daughter accept the proposal, and whoever married the younger daughter would receive the bride price, and whoever married the eldest daughter would pay a dowry fee, so a man proposed to the eldest daughter for money. And torturing her, not allowing her to eat and sleep, not giving her clothes to wear, to destroy her spirit, to make her IQ zero, what a man says is what he wants, and as a result this humble woman is tamed.
Shakespeare told the story to Marlowe and his servant Burton, and they laughed. Only Kate, as a feminist, had a hard time accepting such a plot. But it was still the domain of men at the time, so the play was a huge success.
So Shakespeare wanted to use the plot of "Taming" to tame his mighty eldest daughter and not give her salted pork to eat, saying how can such an attractive person eat salted pork? Scolded by his daughter as a nasty ghost, he said that the sun was the moon, pointed at his toothless father and said that it was a young girl, the daughter was annoyed with him, and casually obeyed him, Shakespeare was very proud to think that he had tamed this little woman, and the daughter knew his trick and completely turned her face with him.
Although Taming was a success, he also offended two people, one was Kate, and although the feminist Kate thought the show was a serious insult to women, Shakespeare had the same serious prejudice against women as the men of his time, and Kate did not hate him very much. One is his eldest daughter, Suzanne, because "Taming the Taming" is based on her. In order to please his eldest daughter, he can only comfort Suzanne and say that the prototype of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet is Suzanne. Why, because Juliet is a girl, and her daughter is also a girl, so she is the prototype of Juliet, which is Shakespeare's deceptive logical reasoning.
According to historical records, we know that Shakespeare's eldest daughter later married well, married to the most famous doctor in the area, a graduate of Cambridge University, and she also received Shakespeare's largest inheritance. However, Shakespeare's youngest daughter, Judith, married a man with a heart, and Shakespeare did not give her much property.
The comedy of "Taming the Taming" is still staged, and the exaggerated plot makes people not delve into the theme, but the wrong concept of love in it, the slightly sober audience will be as difficult to accept as Kate in "Upstart". Myself included, the only shakespeare play I don't like is The Taming of the Taming.