Katherine swears she’ll never marry. Her younger sister, Bianca, can’t marry until Katherine does. So when Bianca falls in love with Lucentio, she needs her older sister to wed so Bianca can fulfill her heart’s desire. Enter Petruchio, determined to marry a wealthy woman, who sets his eyes on the reluctant Katherine. Katherine and Petruchio’s battle of wills is famous in literature, and Katherine’s eventual submission to her husband is much debated, either as a sign of her love, or a revelation of her fear. The Shakescleare modern English translation of The Taming of the Shrew makes it easy to decipher Shakespeare’s nuanced language and will help you appreciate all of the play’s most famous lines--like “If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”