Katharina and Bianca
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She was born under a snarling star And rose defiantly on her infant limbs Beside the angry beating heart of Cat Mama The wrath of female bonded her first hymns She rose above the nascent brood Who swarmed like rolling waves She nosed their bodies, took their food In early life a female knave. Katerina was born an amazon, Not a simpering maid Her kittenish looks were just a con Her mother even grew afraid Would Katerina ever fall in love Be tamed into a coo-ing dove?
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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.