 In particular, he concentrated on the various complications and inconsistencies in the subplot of "A Shrew", which had been used by Houk and Duthie as evidence for an "Ur-Shrew", to argue that the reporter of "A Shrew" attempted to recreate the complex subplot from "The Shrew" but got confused; "the compiler of "A Shrew" while trying to follow the subplot of "The Shrew" gave it up as too complicated to reproduce, and fell back on love scenes in which he substituted for the maneuvers of the disguised Lucentio and Hortensio extracts from "Tamburlaine" and "Faustus", with which the lovers woo their ladies.