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 the final scene of the Petruchio/Katherina story. Pope added most of the Sly framework to "The Shrew", even though he acknowledged in his preface that he did not believe Shakespeare had written "A Shrew". Subsequent editors followed suit, adding some or all of the Sly framework to their versions of "The Shrew"; Lewis Theobald (1733), Thomas Hanmer (1744), William Warburton (1747), Samuel Johnson and George Steevens (1765) and Edward Capell (1768). In his 1790 edition of "The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare", however, Edmond Malone removed all "A Shrew" extracts and returned the text to the 1623 "First Folio"