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Petruchio has come to Padua to find a rich wife after the death of his father. He runs into his friend Hortensio who is a suitor of Baptista’s younger daughter, Bianca. When Petruchio tells Hortensio what he is looking for, Hortensio recommends that Petruchio marry Kate, Baptista’s elder daughter, but he warns him that she is evil. Petruchio says he doesn’t care, as long as she’s rich. When Petruchio goes to Baptista’s home, he meets Kate and learns first hand how mean she can be. However, he
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Start: PETRUCHIO
Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear.
KATE
Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
They call me Katharina that do talk of me.
PETRUCHIO
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate,
And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;
But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom
Kate of Kate Hall, my
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