Catharine and Petruchio

Marie Thérèse Kemble as Catharine in David Garrick's Catherine and Petruchio.
A portrait of Henry Woodward (1714–1777) portraying Petruchio (by Benjamin van der Gucht

Catharine and Petruchio is a reworking of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by British playwright and actor David Garrick. It was written in 1754 and was performed far more often than the original The Shrew through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.