The richly comic plot of The Taming of the Shrew revolves around the taming of the virago Katharina by the insouciant Petruchio, a strong-minded and witty Veronese on the make. This is the polt which Cle Porter adapted for his musical Kiss Me Kate.
But underneath this comedy of manners lies a darker and deeper political theme.
The text of this edition is taken from the Cambridge University Press New Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson.