 An early scholar to find fault with Alexander's reasoning was E.K.Chambers, who reasserted the source theory.Chambers, who supported Alexander's bad quarto theory regarding "The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster" and "The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of Yorke", argued "A Shrew" did not fit the pattern of a bad quarto; "I am quite unable to believe that "A Shrew" had any such origin.