The Taming of the Shrew in performance reviewers as being extremely physical. Lunt and Fontanne were the most famous celebrity couple of the time, and their backstage fights were rumoured to be just as ferocious as their on-stage performances. So legendary did the tempestuous reputation of the couple become that Cole Porter's 1948 musical "Kiss Me, Kate", about a fiery couple attempting to stage an adaptation of "The Taming of the Shrew", was based on their real-life antics. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the play has been frequently staged all over the world. Some notable productions include: "The Shrew"s popularity on stage has continued
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