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 the final scene of the Petruchio/Katherina story. Pope added most of the Sly framework to "The Shrew", even though he acknowledged in his preface that he did not believe Shakespeare had written "A Shrew". Subsequent editors followed suit, adding some or all of the Sly framework to their versions of "The Shrew"; Lewis Theobald (1733), Thomas Hanmer (1744), William Warburton (1747), Samuel Johnson and George Steevens (1765) and Edward Capell (1768). In his 1790 edition of "The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare", however, Edmond Malone removed all "A Shrew" extracts and returned the text to the 1623 "First Folio"