 As such, audiences may not have been as predisposed to tolerate the harsh treatment of Katherina as is often thought.Evidence of at least some initial societal discomfort with "The Shrew" is, perhaps, to be found in the fact that John Fletcher, Shakespeare's successor as house playwright for the King's Men, wrote "The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed" as a sequel to Shakespeare's play.Written "c."1611, the play tells the story of Petruchio's remarriage after Katherina's death.