The Taming of the Shrew as keeping her from eating and drinking, until she becomes a desirable, compliant, and obedient bride. The subplot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's younger sister, Bianca, who is seen as the "ideal" woman. The question of whether the play is misogynistic or not has become the subject of considerable controversy, particularly among modern scholars, audiences, and readers. "The Taming of the Shrew" has been adapted numerous times for stage, screen, opera, ballet, and musical theatre; perhaps the most famous adaptations being Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate" and the 1967 film of the play, starring Elizabeth Taylor and
The Taming of the Shrew over twenty examples of bad quartos, Kirschbaum did not include "A Shrew", which he felt was too different from "The Shrew" to come under the bad quarto banner; "despite protestations to the contrary, "The Taming of a Shrew" does not stand in relation to "The Shrew" as "The True Tragedie", for example, stands in relation to "3 Henry VI"." Writing in 1998, Stephen Roy Miller offers much the same opinion; "the relation of the early quarto to the "Folio" text is unlike other early quartos because the texts vary much more in plotting and dialogue [...] the differences between the