AqA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE B (7717/1B) Paper 1B Literary genres: Aspects of comedy - JUNE 2022 OFFICIAL QUESTION PAPER

AqA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE B (7717/1B) Paper 1B Literary genres: Aspects of comedy - JUNE 2022 OFFICIAL QUESTION PAPER 01. The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare Read the extract below and then answer the question. Explore the significance of this extract in relation to the comedy of the play as a whole. Remember to include in your answer relevant analysis of Shakespeare’s dramatic methods. [25 marks] TRANIO You will be schoolmaster, And undertake the teaching of the maid – That’s your device. LUCENTIO It is. May it be done? TRANIO Not possible. For who shall bear your part And be in Padua here Vincentio’s son, Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends, Visit his countrymen and banquet them? LUCENTIO Basta, content thee, for I have it full. We have not yet been seen in any house, Nor can we be distinguished by our faces For man or master. Then it follows thus – Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead, Keep house, and port, and servants, as I should. I will some other be – some Florentine, Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa. ’Tis hatched, and shall be so. Tranio, at once Uncase thee, take my coloured hat and cloak. When Biondello comes, he waits on thee, But I will charm him first to keep his tongue. TRANIO So had you need. They exchange garments In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is, And I am tied to be obedient – For so your father charged me at our parting: ‘Be serviceable to my son’, quoth he, Although I think ’twas in another sense – I am content to be Lucentio, Because so well I love Lucentio. LUCENTIO Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves. And let me be a slave, t’achieve that maid Whose sudden sight hath thralled my wounded eye.