Baptista Minola wants to find people to marry his two daughters. His younger daughter, Bianca, is nice and quiet. There are lots of people who want to marry her. His older daughter, Katharina, is wild and angry, and Baptista thinks no one will marry her. But, Baptista says that Bianca cannot get married until Katharina gets married.
Lucentio sees Bianca and falls in love immediately. Lucentio disguises himself as a Latin teacher so that he can spend time with Bianca. He eventually tells Bianca his true identity and it turns out she likes him too! Even though there are other people who try to convince Baptista that she should marry them, Bianca likes Lucentio the best.
Petruchio hears about Katharina and decides that he wants to marry her. He also thinks he will be able to tame her wild behavior. When Katharina and Petruchio meet, Katharina does not like Petruchio at all. He acts even meaner and crazier than she does. Katharina is not allowed to eat or sleep and Petruchio confuses her by doing things like pretending that the sun is the moon. Even though Katharina and Petruchio fight a lot at first, they eventually learn to get along.
At a wedding for all the marriages, Katharina surprises everyone by acting nice and sweet like her sister and not like she was in the beginning where she was angry and mean.
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