<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Information </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Role </Th> <Td> Ingenue Baptista's younger daughter Kate's sister Lucentio's love </Td> </Tr> <P> Bianca Minola is a character in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1590--1594). She is the younger daughter of Baptista Minola and the sister of Kate, the "shrew" of the title . The lovely Bianca has several admirers in the play, but Baptista has refused to allow her to marry until his shrewish daughter Kate has found a husband . When Kate marries, Bianca is united with her lover, Lucentio . Theatrically, Bianca is the ingenue in Shrew and the female lead in the play's subplot . </P> <P> The basic elements of the play are present in Don Juan Manuel's 14th - century Castilian tale of the "young man who married a very strong and fiery woman". The play's subplot, involving the characters Bianca and Lucentio, derives from Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi, either directly or through George Gascoigne's English version Supposes (performed 1566, printed 1573). </P>

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