Brewer's: Petruchio

A gentleman of Verona who undertakes to tame the haughty Katharine, called the Shrew. He marries her, and without the least personal chastisement brings her to lamb-like submission. (Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrow.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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