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 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