...tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt. 41 Such duty as the subject owes the prince Even such a woman oweth to her husband. She continues in this vein until, to demonstrate her allegiance, she offers to place her hand beneath...

...is my lawfull Wife; I am the Head, and it is my Body". When Kate at the end of the "taming" claims "Such duty as the subject owes the prince, / Even such a woman oweth to her husband," she is using a precise rhetoric of power rooted in gender relations, even if Shakespeare makes the...

...husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee [. . .] Such duty as the subject owes the prince Even such a woman oweth to her husband. And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will What is she but a foul contending...

...rebellious one.216 As Petruchio did before with regard to herself, she enters the field of politics: "Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul...

...the comma). i97 vertue ... commendation Cf. H'DV.vi. i93. 202-4 King . . . wife Cf. Shr. V.ii. i55-6: 'Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.' 205 full of business It seems that Lady Cressingham makes to leave, and is blocked by Young Cressingham....

...Katherine also represents the literalization of Katherine Minola 's (and the marriage manuals') metaphor: 'Such duty as the subject owes the prince / Even such a woman oweth to her husband' (5.2.156—7). Throughout Henry VIII, we see how the prince mistreats dutiful subjects; the apotheosis,...