Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in <em>The Taming of the Shrew</em>
Richard Burton as Petruchio and Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina in a film version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1967).
Petruchio, fictional character, a gentleman of Verona who goes to Padua in search of a wife and becomes the suitor of Katharina, the shrew of the title, in William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (written sometime in 1590–94).