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A common central theme of such literature and folktales is the often forceful "taming" of shrewish wives by their husbands. [2] Arising in folklore, in which community story-telling can have functions of moral censorship or suasion, it has served to affirm traditional values and moral authority regarding polarised gender roles, and to address social unease about female behavior in marriage.
Blodeuwedd by Christopher Williams (1930). Blodeuwedd (Welsh pronunciation: [blɔˈdeiwɛð]; Welsh "Flower-Faced", a composite name from blodau "flowers" + gwedd "face"), [1] is married to Lleu Llaw Gyffes in Welsh mythology.
The mistress-wife (ayyasama or ayyabhariya or "swamibhariya": alternate translations include “lordly-wife”, “master-wife” and “tyrant-wife”) – she is shrewish, rude and coarsely-spoken when it suits her, lazy and domineering. The Buddha then states that the following four types are heading for happiness – in this world or the next.
Blodwen (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈblɔdwɛn]) is an opera in three acts composed in 1878 by Dr Joseph Parry to a libretto by Richard Davies. It was the first opera written in the Welsh language . [ 1 ]
Joseph T. Shipley argues that the Italian Trivigante became confused with termigisto, meaning "boaster," derived from Hermes Trismegistus, leading to Termagant. [5] Leo Spitzer argues that Tervagant, like several other names ending in -ant from the Matter of France (e.g. Baligant and Morgant ), is an " occitanization " of a vulgar Latin present ...
Petruchio marries Katharine to gain wealth. However, he is not content with her shrewish behaviour and he goes through great measures to assert his dominance over her and tame her. He believes that the only way to get through to Katharine is by giving her a taste of her own medicine.
Blodwen is a Welsh girl's name, and can refer to: Blodwen Davies (1897–1966), Canadian writer and historian; Blodwen, an opera by Joseph Parry; Blodwen, a character from The Lingo Show, a kids' TV show; Blodwen Peak, a peak in Antarctica
During the Enlightenment, some followed in the tradition of a shrewish Xanthippe – such as Pieter Langendijk in his Xantippe, of het booze wyf des filozoofs Sokrates beteugeld. Others, however, began to treat her more sympathetically: the German scholar Christoph August Heumann was the first to question the historicity of the negative ancient ...