One of Shakespeares most robust comedies The Taming of the Shrew is about Katherine the ill-tempered daughter of a wealthy merchant in Padua. Katherine is so petulant that her father always believed no man would ever want her as his wife. However Petruchio a rich and arrogant young man comes into Katherines life and together they begin to realise the error of their ways.Also available as part of a 20 book set including Romeo and Juliet Hamlet The Tragedy of Macbeth A Midsummer Nights Dream A Winters Tale The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night Timon of Athens The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Merchant of Venice Othello Much Ado About Nothing King Lear Julius Caesar Cymbeline The Comedy of Errors As You Like It Anthony and Cleopatra and Alls Well That Ends Well.