The Taming of the Shrew
By William Shakespeare
Cover: Petruchio rejects the gown, from The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV (1866), wood engraving after Charles Robert Leslie by William Luson Thomas (1830-1900), after Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (published 1866; engraver died 1900, painter died 1859)
A drunken tinker is tricked into believing he is a lord and is shown a play, in which Petruchio comes to Padua to marry the sharp-tongued Katherina so that her gentler sister Bianca can be courted. His methods of taming her have been argued over ever since.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.