 She argues "A Shrew" is an earlier version of "The Shrew", but acknowledges that most scholars reject the idea that "A Shrew" was written by Shakespeare.She believes one of the reasons for this is because "A Shrew" "hedges the play's patriarchal message with numerous qualifiers that do not exist in" "The Shrew".She calls "A Shrew" a more "progressive" text than "The Shrew", and argues that scholars tend to dismiss the idea that "A Shrew" is Shakespearean because "the women are not as satisfactorily tamed as they are in "The Shrew"."