Radical feminists cite undisguised gender bashing and the deliberate subjugation of an unwilling woman to a man s desires.
Social workers point a finger at the play s undiluted domestic violence.
No doubt fathers rights groups have a complaint. So do Older Sisters for Equality. Just look at his roles for women in general Rosalind and Portia to name only two. In The Merry Wives of Windsor it s just the opposite of Shrew two women beat up on an old man. A smart but penniless entrepreneur from the Big Apple of Venice, Petruchio wants to marry into money in a burb called Padua.