You can be of great help to familiarize students with items one and two, but for the rest go straight to Shakespeare. One immediately falls for a beautiful, delightful, but extremely protected young woman. He learns that her father, who is rich and influential, will not let her near a man until her older sister dates.
Hands go up.
Answers blurt out. Yes, but she is mean. And so the exchange continues until by the end of the class period the students get a modernized version of the Shre w plot and an introduction to the major characters. But I italicize the sort of because although Lutz , Smith, and Junger take swipes at Shakespeare's plot, they achieve a much weaker, tamer version. Like Petruchio, Patrick Verona has a mysterious, somewhat mythic background.