critics

• Fiona Shaw suggests Petruchio's ridiculous wedding costume mirrors Kate to show her what she's like (so she'll change).
• Superiority theory of humour 


  ' the laugher always looks down on whatever he laughs at. '

  • characters that suffer from misfortunes/get injured are usually fools or disliked characters (Gremio doesn't have wife, drunken fool Sly tricked)
• Superiority theory

  Bergson suggests a ' typical comic character is a man with an obsession. '

  • Gremio lusting after Bianca
• Bennet and Royle say that a helpful way of understanding a text is through its ending

  • can't understand ending without seeing journey
  • only a small part of the play
  • overall allegory is at the end
• Aristotle 


  Suggests a comedy is 'reconciled in the end, no one killed by anybody.'