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    Engendering Shrews: Medieval to Early Modern

    When Petruchio humiliates Katherine on their wedding day, her father Baptista identifies the feminine bearing of the central term in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew (1623): ‘[S]uch an injury would vex a saint, ...

    Holly A. Crocker in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500–1700 (2010)