 She also points out that if "A Shrew" is an early draft, it suggests Shakespeare "may have increased rather than decreased the patriarchal violence of his materials", something which, she believes, scholars find difficult to accept.However, others see the play as an example of a pre-feminist condemnation of patriarchal domination and an argument for modern-day "women's lib".For example, Conall Morrison, director of the RSC "relentlessly unpleasant" 2008 production, wrote