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Kate:: I just finished rereading The Taming of the Shrew, which can be read many different ways, many of which are horrible and antifeminist. But I decided to read it in the least horrible and antifeminist way I can think of, in which Kate is just too witty and smart and awesome for the patriarchy, and is the only person who knows that Bianca is a big fat fake, and has a low bullshit tolerance, and this is why she has turned into such an unhappy and constantly-spoiling-for-a-fight person by the beginning of the play. And then she and Petrucchio basically team up to fuck with everybody once he out-insanes her, and that whole horrible speech about obedience at the end is basically the same shit Kate was doing right at the opening of the play--which is becoming the center of attention by talking way more than Elizabethan women were supposed to talk, and scolding Bianca--only this time they have successfully conned everyone into thinking that it's totally awesome. And they make a lot of money!

Mistress Ford and Mistress Page from The Merry Wives of Windsor. Because basically they run the entire show by playing fabulous tricks on people.

Emilia from Othello. Because she is cynical and the only person in the play who is not totally overdramatic about everything.

I feel like I could answer this prompt better at the end of the semester when I will have reread a lot more Shakespeare. >.> Most of his plays I haven't seen in years.