Editing The Taming of the Shrew (section)

=== Money ===
[[File:John Drew as Petruchio.jpg|thumb|upright=0.70|[[John Drew, Jr.|John Drew]] as Petruchio in [[Augustin Daly]]'s 1887 production at Daly's Theatre, New York]]

The motivation of money is another theme. When speaking of whether or not someone may ever want to marry Katherina, Hortensio says "Though it pass your patience and mine to endure her loud alarums, why man, there be good fellows in the world, and a man could light on them, would take her with all faults and money enough" (1.1.125–128). In the scene that follows Petruchio says:

{{blockquote|
<poem>
If thou know
One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife-
As wealth is burden of my wooing dance-
Be she as foul as was [[Confessio Amantis#The tales|Florentius]]' love,
As old as [[Cumaean Sibyl#Stories recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses|Sibyl]], and as curst and shrewd
As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse,
She moves me not.
:::::::(1.2.65–71)
</poem>
}}

A few lines later Grumio says, "Why give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an [[aglet]]-baby, or an old trot with ne're a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses. Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal" (1.2.77–80). Furthermore, Petruchio is encouraged to woo Katherina by Gremio, Tranio (as Lucentio), and Hortensio, who vow to pay him if he wins her, on top of Baptista's dowry ("After my death, the one half of my lands, and in possession, twenty thousand crowns"). Later, Petruchio does not agree with Baptista on the subject of love in this exchange:

{{blockquote|
<poem>
''BAPTISTA''
When the special thing is well obtained,
That is, her love; for that is all in all.

''PETRUCHIO''
Why that is nothing.
:::::::(2.1.27–29)
</poem>
}}

Gremio and Tranio literally bid for Bianca. As Baptista says, {{"'}}Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both/That can assure my daughter greatest dower/Shall have my Bianca's love" (2.1.344–346).