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 in performance dialogue). In an "extremely conventional production" at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater in 1919, starring Ethel Warwick and Edmund Willard, William Bridges-Adams stuck rigidly to the "First Folio" text, but completely removed the Induction and all references to Sly. In a 1922 production at The Old Vic starring Florence Buckton and Rupert Harvey, director Robert Atkins was the first to graft the "A Shrew" epilogue onto a performance of "The Shrew", with Hay Petrie playing Sly. In 1927, H.K. Ayliff directed a modern dress production at the Garrick Theatre in New York, with Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney. At the time,