The Taming Of The Shrew

The Taming of the Shrewis 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 smooth
But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Should well agree with our external parts?”