- Petruchio is one of two central characters (along with Katherine) in Shakespeare’s play, The Taming of the Shrew.
- Petruchio: Why, what's a moveable? Katherina: A stool like this! [she kicks out the stool he was sitting on, and he falls on the floor]. Petruchio: Then sit on me!
- Petruchio is a gentleman who comes to Padua from Verona seeking a wife. He is loud, stubborn, and boisterous—in some ways a male version of Katherine .
- The boastful, selfish, mercurial Petruchio is one of the most difficult characters in The Taming of the Shrew: his behavior is extremely difficult to decipher, and...
- To show that she is indeed now more obedient, on Petruchio’s orders Katharina delivers a short sermon on the virtues of wifely obedience.
- Thou looketh at the account of thy sexiest man in all of the lands. Petruchio the legend be thy name, sexism and dames are thy game.
- For Petruchio, Katherina's personality is completely incidental to her wealth, as he’s convinced he could change her to his liking.
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- Petruchio Such wind as scatters young men through the world To seek their fortunes farther than at home, Where small experience grows.
- Petruchio is a fortune seeker who enters into a marriage with a strong-willed young woman named Kate and then proceeds to "tame" her temperamental spirit.