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 written by Christopher Marlowe, with "The Shrew" as his template. He reached this conclusion primarily because "A Shrew" features numerous lines almost identical to lines in Marlowe's "Tamburlaine" and "Dr. Faustus". In 1926, building on Hickson's research, Peter Alexander first suggested the bad quarto theory. Alexander agreed with Hickson that "A Shrew" was derived from "The Shrew", but he did not agree that Marlowe wrote "A Shrew". Instead he labelled "A Shrew" a bad quarto. His main argument was that, primarily in the subplot of "A Shrew", characters act without motivation, whereas such motivation is present in "The Shrew". Alexander