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 H.J. Oliver suggests, there are "passages in ["A Shrew"] [...] that make sense only if one knows the [Follio] version from which they must have been derived." The debate regarding the relationship between the two plays began in 1725, when Alexander Pope incorporated extracts from "A Shrew" into "The Shrew" in his edition of Shakespeare's works. In "The Shrew", the Christopher Sly framework is only featured twice; at the opening of the play, and at the end of Act 1, Scene 1. However, in "A Shrew", the Sly framework reappears a further five times, including a scene which comes after