While The Taming of the Shrew frustrates my pseudo-feminist sensibilities at times (for instance, when the men were sitting in a room taking bets on whose wife would come when fetched), I think that a significant point that one could take away is the relationship between eros and virtue. Petruchio offered a form of grace to Kate--it was a love coming from an other that called her and caused her to change and become more virtuous (at least in a very male conception of virtue, but I think a conception of virtue that also wouldn't be inconsistent with a complementarian understanding of the relationship between the sexes).
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