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Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina, holding a book and looking at Richard Burton as Petruchio, who leans toward her, in a scene from the 1967 film The Taming of the Shrew.
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in The Taming of the Shrew
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in The Taming of the Shrew Richard Burton as Petruchio and Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina in a film version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1967).

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Petruchio, fictional character, a gentleman of Verona who goes to Padua in search of a wife and becomes the suitor of Katharina, the shrew of the title, in William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (written sometime in 1590–94).