The Taming of the Shrew steps forward and speaks directly to the audience as herself; "Well, I must own, it wounds me to the Heart/To play, unwomanly, so mean a Part./What – to submit, so tamely – so contented,/Thank Heav'n! I'm not the Thing I represented." Cole Porter's musical "Kiss Me, Kate" is an adaptation of "Taming of the Shrew". The music and lyrics are by Porter and the book is by Samuel and Bella Spewack. It is at least partially based on the 1935/1936 Theatre Guild production of "Taming of the Shrew", which starred husband and wife Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, whose backstage
The Taming of the Shrew of life and humour that we find it now." Hickson is here arguing that Marlowe's "A Shrew" is not based upon the version of "The Shrew" found in the "First Folio", but on another version of the play. Duthie argues this other version was a Shakespearean early draft of "The Shrew"; "A Shrew" constitutes a reported text of a now lost early draft. Alexander returned to the debate in 1969, re-presenting his bad quarto theory. In particular, he concentrated on the various complications and inconsistencies in the subplot of "A Shrew", which had been used by Houk and Duthie as