Appropriating of The Taming of the Shrew, altering the play and making it less sexist just to make it fit in to the 20th century would be changing the whole point of the play itself. The Taming of the Shrew reflected the 16th Century values of men and women alike, the play showed how men and women should behave towards each other. There was the whole Great Chain of Being thing, where god (who was in fact a man) would stand high up at the top, then the arch angels, the king (also a man), and then somewhere clearly below the men on the chain was the woman; it was a patriarchal society which…
