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 Shaw's words 'altogether disgusting to modern sensibility'." Addressing the relationship between "A Shrew" and "The Shrew" from a political perspective, for example, Leah S. Marcus very much believes the play to be what it seems. She argues "A Shrew" is an earlier version of "The Shrew", but acknowledges that most scholars reject the idea that "A Shrew" was written by Shakespeare. She believes one of the reasons for this is because "A Shrew" "hedges the play's patriarchal message with numerous qualifiers that do not exist in" "The Shrew". She calls "A Shrew" a more "progressive" text than "The Shrew", and