Kate and Bianca: More Than Just Sisters In The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Kate and Bianca prove to be more than just sisters but also great literary foils for each other. They are also related by the apparent switch of personalities they seem to complete by the end of the comedy. In the start of this Elizabethan era play, Kate is the shrew of all shrews. At the end Petruchio has fulfilled …showed first 75 words of 572 total…

…showed last 75 words of 572 total…be “rough and woo not like a babe” (II.i.149). Likewise Tranio got his wish “That Lucentio indeed had Baptista’s youngest daughter” (I.i.250-51). But now Lucentio has something that he is not ready for, for as Kate has been tamed, Bianca has revealed her true self. Now they are still opposites but in a slightly different way. Because Shakespeare is able to keep them as literary foils, many people love this play.