The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is a classic Shakespeare comedy and one of the playwright’s most popular works. It’s based on the proverbial war between the sexes, and the plot pits an opportunistic, 16th-century lord against a headstrong woman, whom he is wooing in order to acquire her substantial dowry.  “Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smoothBut that our soft conditions and our heartsShould well agree with our external parts?”