As he tells Petruchio and Kate, "bound I am for Padua, there to visit a son of mine, which long I have not seen." His son is, of course, Lucentio.
Yes! In The Taming Of The Shrew.
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The pedant is inveigled into impersonating Lucentio's father Vincentio. When the real Vincentio shows up, the pedant, not recognizing him, insists that he, the pedant, is in fact Vincentio.
The population of the city of Padua in Italy is approximately 214,000 (according to the 2011 Census). Padua is famously the setting of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
Petruchio came to Padua in "The Taming of the Shrew" to find a wealthy wife. He heard about Katherine, a strong-willed woman, and saw her as a challenge. Petruchio was not motivated by love but by the dowry he could receive by marrying Katherine.
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedic play.
Where was the play "The Taming of the Shrew" preformed
The Taming of the Shrew was written in English by William Shakespeare.
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The cast of The Taming of the Shrew - 1956 includes: Philip Bourneuf as Baptista Minola Diane Cilento as Bianca John Colicos as Lucentio Maurice Evans as Petruchio Jerome Kilty as Grumio Ronald Long as Biondello Lilli Palmer as Katherina Robinson Stone as Vincentio Douglass Watson as Hortensio
The Taming of the Shrew - 1923 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
"Tranio, since for the great desire I had to see fair Padua" (I, 1)"Vincentio's son, brought up in Florence." (I,1)"Tell me thy mind, for I have Pisa left" (I, 1)"As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was" (I, 1)"Verona, for a while I take my leave" (I, 2)"this young scholar that hath long been studying at Rheims" (II, 1)"Father and wife and gentlemen adieu. I will to Venice." (II, 1)"An argosy that now is lying in Marseilles' road" (II, 1)"As far as Rome and so to Tripoli if God lend me life." (IV, 2)"Tis death for anyone in Mantua to come to Padua." (IV, 2)"Near twenty years ago, in Genoa, where we were lodgers at the Pegasus (IV, 4)