The title of the play "The Taming of the Shrew", suggests to me that it will be about someone being forced to calm down or training another person. The Taming of the Shrew is about how Petruchio tries to mould his wife Katherina into his ideal wife.
Over the years in which "The Taming of the Shrew" has been performed, critics' insights and opinions of the play have changed drastically. The play has attracted so much opprobrium, for example towards the end of the 19th Century George Bernard Shaw commented, "It is good to for the shrew to encounter a force like that and be brought to her senses".
Here he suggests that the way in which Petruchio had treated Katherina was acceptable. However even Shaw seemed to have contradictory views on the play.
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