the taming of the shrew: a cultural approach to the methods of silencing women in the renaissance

this article endeavors to analyze how feminine language hasbeen represented and subordinated in the renaissance. a survey of differentdiscourses during this period delineates the anxiety and fear of therenaissance man from woman's language. this anxiety is entrenched in thewestern and christian narratives and myths. analyzing the renaissance culturethrough surveying some penal devices for controlling the tongue of women andreading shakespeare's the taming of the shrew, we have delineated howshakespeare has satirized renaissance man's anxiety who shows his superiorityby attempting to cut the female tongue and hence to make her silent. the comicfigure, contrary to what people in renaissance and some critics may think, aremen, who try to control femininity by cutting her tongue, rather than theshrew.