What happens in The Taming of the Shrew

For this month on What Happens in Shakespeare, I picked a Thanksgiving-appropriate play. It’s chock full of holiday traditions: family feuding, daytime drunkenness, and men judging women on their eating habits.

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the top most-hated Shakespeare plays, and for good reason. There have been some retellings that attempt to bring it up to date but don’t make me like it any better. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler at least cuts out a lot of the implied violence, and Cole Po...