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.
Goneril Goneril is a character in Shakespeare's tragic play "King Lear" (1605). She is the eldest of King Lear's three daughters. Along with her sister Regan, Goneril is considered a villain, obsessed with power and overthrowing her elderly father as ruler of the kingdom of Britain. Her aggressiveness is a rare trait for a female character in Elizabethan literature.