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 evidence for an "Ur-Shrew", to argue that the reporter of "A Shrew" attempted to recreate the complex subplot from "The Shrew" but got confused; "the compiler of "A Shrew" while trying to follow the subplot of "The Shrew" gave it up as too complicated to reproduce, and fell back on love scenes in which he substituted for the maneuvers of the disguised Lucentio and Hortensio extracts from "Tamburlaine" and "Faustus", with which the lovers woo their ladies." After little further discussion of the issue in the 1970s, the 1980s saw the publication of three scholarly editions of "The Shrew", all