Stichomythia is dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse, used as a stylistic device in ancient Greek drama.
"This Shrew was being played as Sly's dream, a male supremacist's fantasy of revenge upon women" - RSC programme note, 1978
"The Taming of the Shrew is not a knockabout farce of wife-battering, but the cunning adaptation of a folk-motif to show the forging of a partnership between equals" - Germaine Greer
