What is the name of the wife of the character that Stephen Boxer played in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of "The Taming of the Shrew"?
Petruchio Petruchio (an anglicisation of the Italian name Petruccio; ] ) is the male protagonist in Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (c. 1590–1594). Petruchio is a fortune seeker who enters into a marriage with a strong-willed young woman named Kate and then proceeds to "tame" her temperamental spirit. The role has attracted notable performers.
Richard Yates (actor) Richard Yates (c. 1706–1796) was an English comic actor, who worked at the Haymarket Theatre and Drury Lane among others, appearing in David Garrick's "King Lear". He also worked in theatre management, and set up the New Theatre in Birmingham in 1773. Both his first wife, Elizabeth Mary (maiden name unknown, died in 1753) and Mary Anne Graham (1728–1787 - married in 1756) were actresses.