Shakespeare's Women by The Fates ~ Mary & Marco

1. Shakespeare's Women by The Fates ~ Mary & Marco ~ The wooing of William

2. Rosalind ~ As You Like It Eligible Bachelorette #1 Traits: ~ Romantic ~ Determined ~ Androgynous

3. Katherine (Kate) ~ The Taming of The Shrew Eligible Bachelorette #2 Traits: ~ Spirited ~ Outspoken ~ Strong-willed

4. William: Hello fair ladies! Your names are Rosalind and Kate? • Katherine: “Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing. They call me Katherine that do talk to me.” • Rosalind: “I’ll have no worse a name than Jov’s own page, and therefore look you call me Ganymede.”

5. William: Do either of you believe in “love at first sight”? • Katherine: “Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.”… “Go, get thee gone, thou false, deluding slave.” • Rosalind: “Love is merely a madness, and I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a hip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

6. William: What is your idea of a perfect romantic evening? • Rosalind: “I set him every day to woo me; at which time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every passion something and for no passion truly anything.” • Katherine: “I pray you, sir, is it your will to make a stale of me amongst these mates?”… “I see a woman may be made a fool if she had not a spirit to resist.”… “The door is open, sir, there lies your way.”

7. William: Men are often accused of having a wandering eye. How would you react if you were to catch me looking at another woman? • Rosalind: “I will be more jealous of thee than a barbery cock-pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more newfangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey.” • Katherine: “I’ll see thee hanged on Sunday first.”

8. William: If I were to be late for our date, what might my consequences be? • Rosalind: “He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but a part of the thousand part of a minute in the affairs of love, it may be said of him that cupid hath clapped him o’th’ shoulder, but I’ll warrant him heart whole.” • Katherine: “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break, and rather than it shall I will be free even to the uttermost as I please in words.”

9. William: And if, for some reason, I must cancel our date, what would your reaction be? • Katherine: “To comb your noodle with a three-legged stool, and paint your face, and use you like a fool.”… “Talk not to me. I will go sit and weep till I can find occasion of revenge.” • Rosalind: “I could find in my heart to disgrace my man’s apparel and to cry like a woman.”

10. William: Well, fair gentlewomen, I cannot see how it would be possible for me to choose between the two of you, so I bid you both farewell and leave you with these final words… “I am not bound to please thee with my answer. I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.” “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”

11. Film clips… The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

12. Film clips… As You Like It (2006)