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 Oxford Shakespeare edition of "2 Henry VI", Roger Warren makes the same argument for "The First Part of the Contention". Randall Martin reaches the same conclusion regarding "The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of Yorke" in his 2001 Oxford Shakespeare edition of "3 Henry VI". This lends support to the theory that "A Shrew" could be both a reported text and an early draft. "The Taming of the Shrew" has been the subject of critical controversy. Dana Aspinall writes "Since its first appearance, some time between 1588 and 1594, "Shrew" has elicited a panoply of heartily supportive, ethically uneasy, or