Taming of the Shrew:George Clarke as Petruchio. See previous image for his Kate.

This is a typical nineteenth-century view of Petruchio as a whip-wielding tyrant, but Ada Rehan was unlikely to be cowed by him. Note the phallic sword! Courtesy of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Collection at .http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/the.html