This is the second time I've read this play. (I also saw it years ago and they were all pirates which were pretty cool.) But upon reading this again for a college course I found it very irritating. The point of the play is for Katherine to be married off so that her sister 'the fair and beautiful Bianca' can be wed to one of her many suitors. But no man wants to marry Kate because she's 'cursed' and has a temper. This really irritated me because this whole play is centered around the objectification of women! Even her father Baptista treats Kate like an object! No wonder she is always in a bad mood, her father constantly overlooks her and only wants to marry her off to be done with her. Then there is the whole other story of all the suitors are acting like Bianca is a prize to be won, which is why they get Petruchio to marry Katherine so they can have a shot at Bianca. There is a line in the play that compares Kate to trading goods. Petruchio is so evil. He was trying to 'tame' Katherine, so he starved her and physically and mentally abused her. Which is disgusting! I understand that this play is a comedy, but reading this in 2019 from a feminist perspective I found this book to be infuriating. I get that back when this was written women were property to their husbands but making a woman who speaks her mind and won't bow down to these jerks deems her a shrew? And she's evil? Wow.