The beautiful but sharp-tongued Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husb&. But when she is pursued by the wily Petruchio it seems that she has finally met her match. & as he meets her own caustic words with a feigned capricious cruelty Katherina quickly comes to understand the absurdity of her shrewish behaviour in one of the greatest of all comic battles of the sexes.