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 version. By the end of the eighteenth century, the predominant theory had come to be that "A Shrew" was a non-Shakespearean source for "The Shrew", and hence to include extracts from it was to graft non-authorial material onto the play. This theory prevailed until 1850, when Samuel Hickson compared the texts of "The Shrew" and "A Shrew", concluding "The Shrew" was the original, and "A Shrew" was derived from it. By comparing seven passages which are similar in both plays, he concluded "the original conception is invariably to be found" in "The Shrew". His explanation was that "A Shrew" was