What is the name of Shakespeare's shrew?
The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film) The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film) The Taming of the Shrew () is a 1967 American-Italian romantic comedy film based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare about a courtship between two strong-willed people. The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Shakespeare's Kate and Petruchio. Baptista Minola is attempting to marry off his two daughters; however, he will marry off his youngest, Bianca only if someone will marry his eldest, Katharina. Katharina is an ill-tempered shrewish woman but a lusty young nobleman, Petruchio, takes on the challenge of
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