History YMMV / TheTamingOfTheShrew

* WTHCastingAgency: An example that isn't one specific piece of casting, but the entire basis of a production. A fairly recent show of Shrew gender bent the entire cast. For some this was an interesting take on the gender roles, but for others, basing the whole show around this concept didn't allow the production to truly embrace the subversive nature of other modern productions.

* ValuesDissonance: Even the most subversive and proto-feminist interpretations can't make all of the sexism palatable to modern audiences. And if you don't read it as subversive--if you take the text at face value, as a story of a domineering man breaking a woman to his will and turning her into a submissive -- the Values Dissonance is cranked UpToEleven. (As noted above, many of the "taming" methods look a lot like what we'd now call psychological torture to some interpreters.)

* NightmareFuel: Petruchio psychologically wearing down his bride Katherine, as evidenced by the title. She's DeniedFoodAsPunishment and subjected to a SleepDeprivationPunishment and even TwoPlusTortureMakesFive! Her speech at the end, urging women to submit to their husbands, demonstrates how fully Petruchio has crushed her spirit. The worst part is that, though more recent performances have acknowledged the horror of what Katherine goes through (for example, by playing up the BrokenBird angle during her final monologue), [[ValuesDissonance more traditional versions play the whole thing for laughs!]]

* NightmareFuel: Petruchio psychologically wearing down his bride Katherine, as evidenced by the title. She's DeniedFoodAsPunishment and subjected to a SleepDeprivationPunishment and even TwoPlusTortureMakesFive! Her speech at the end, urging women to submit to their husbands, demonstrates how fully Petruchio has crushed her spirit. The worst part is that, though more recent performances have acknowledged the horror of what Katherine goes through (for example, by depicting playing up the BrokenBird angle during her final monologue), [[ValuesDissonance more traditional versions play the whole thing for laughs!]]

** Of course, one key difference between Fifty Shades and this story is that the former has consent - arguably dubious consent but still consent - while the latter does not. A woman agreeing to be a submissive and a woman being forced into it is quite different

* NightmareFuel: Petruchio psychologically wearing down his bride Katherine, as evidenced by the title. She's DeniedFoodAsPunishment and subjected to a SleepDeprivationPunishment and even TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive! Her speech at the end, urging women to submit to their husbands, demonstrates how fully Petruchio has crushed her spirit. The worst part is that, though more recent performances have acknowledged the horror of what Katherine goes through (for example, by depicting playing up the BrokenBird angle during her final monologue), [[ValuesDissonance more traditional versions play the whole thing for laughs!]]

* WTHCastingAgency: An example that isn't one specific piece of casting, but the entire basis of a production. A fairly recent show of Shrew GenderBent the entire cast. For some this was an interesting take on the gender roles, but for others, basing the whole show around this concept didn't allow the production to truly embrace the subversive nature of other modern productions.

* MagnificentBastard: Petruchio

** Of course, one key difference between Fifty Shades and this story is that the former has consent - arguably dubious consent but still consent - while the latter does not.