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Early Shakespeare comedy about a man who bets he can "tame" his wife; controversial for accepting male chauvinism (c. 1593)

In my last year at Ditchley Nora played Katherina in the school production of The Taming of the Shrew and urged me to try out for the part of Bianca.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions

All were involved with some version of The Taming of the Shrew, by that former glover's apprentice from Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
I decided to do one of Kate's soliloquies from The Taming of the Shrew (I've loved that play ever since I saw the old movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton).
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
Shakespeare has made use of a similar trick in Taming of the Shrew, where Christopher Sly is put to bed drunk in the lord's room and on awaking is treated as a lord.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.
James Joyce -- Ulysses

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