Baptista Minola
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Tranio
Quote 4
BAPTISTA
Neighbours and friends, though bride and
bridegroom wants
For to supply the places at the table,
You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
To Tranio. Lucentio, you shall supply the
bridegroom's place:
And let Bianca take her sister's room. (3.2.253-259)
Baptista's response to the way Petruchio runs off with Kate after the wedding instead of sticking around to celebrate with friends and neighbors is interesting. Kate's presence, it seems, is negligible as Baptista implies that one daughter can easily replace another.