SOURCE: “Katherine of The Taming of the Shrew: ‘A Second Grissel’,” in Texas Studies in English Literature and Language, Vol. 37, No. 3, Fall, 1995, pp. 285-313.
In the following essay, Brown reviews the ways in which Katherina and Petruchio differ from the traditional shrews and tamers depicted in medieval and Renaissance literature, advocating the idea that such differences are the result of Shakespeare's merging of these traditional roles with the “patient Griselda” genre of literature.
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