So you may recall from a previous LJ entry of mine, but I never really encountered Taming of the Shrew until I saw it performed last summer. I kept waiting for some witty, well-written riposte of feminism within the play, but no. He starves the wife he buys into submission, and she seems almost gleeful of it at the end of the play. I was just totally appalled - not that the play itself exists, but that people continue to perform it. Surely there are better.