Katharina and Bianca

By Elizabeth Reinach and Salvador Capuyan

The story throughout the sonnet cycle Katharina and Bianca is based loosely on William Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew.
The context of gender ideology is modern. The two cats Katharina and Bianca manifest different kinds of female-dominance behaviour and, like the humans, are called after characters in Shakespeare’s play.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Mar 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984593771

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Copyright © 2020 by Elizabeth Reinach.

Library of Congress Control Number:      2020903119

ISBN:       Hardcover       978-1-9845-9379-5

                 Softcover         978-1-9845-9378-8

                 eBook              978-1-9845-9377-1

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 03/31/2020

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"This series of sonnets are

dedicated to Gypsy, my little Bianca."

CONTENTS

Introduction

Sonnet 1

Mother Cat

Sonnet 2

Birth

Sonnet 3

At One Month Old

Sonnet 4

Two Months Later

Sonnet 5

Petruchio

Sonnet 6

Petruchio

Sonnet 6

Know Their History

Sonnet 8

At Home

Sonnet 9

A Night of Love

Sonnet 10

Downstairs

Sonnet 11

Carpet Cure

Sonnet 12

Outside World

Sonnet 13

The Writer

Sonnet 14

Agent

Sonnet 15

Bianca in Bed

Sonnet 16

Below

Sonnet 17

Murder Goes On

Sonnet 18

Hunter

Sonnet 19

Petruchio in the Kitchen

Sonnet 20

The Village Shop

Sonnet 21

The Agent Again

Sonnet 22

Alan Acts

Sonnet 23

Dr Kahn

Sonnet 24

Dr Kahn Visits Petruchio

Sonnet 25

Friends and Relations

Sonnet 26

The Sanitary

Sonnet 27

Dr Kahn’s