To Mikhaela--
As weird as this sounds, reading your paper was difficult for me. Not because it wasn't a good paper, but because it took almost the opposite side of the argument I was making. I said Kate and Petruchio were abusing each other; you said they strengthened one another.
If you were to revise your paper, something I would recommend would be to look at organization. Your central thesis is clear throughout the paper, but I wish there were more of a building feelings to the arguments.
Now, as for where to go from here, you have a couple really different options. The Taming of the Net sounds interesting. It connects to using things in their intended roles (Kate needs to act in her role/sphere of influence, and internet tools need to be used for their correct purposes). What do you think your audience for this would be? Teachers? Kids? Families? It might change the media you want to present it in.
And then your other thought on marriage counseling. I think you'd have to make some adjustments with this one because of the different gender roles in Shakespeare's time versus now. A woman that feels oppressed by her husband who then reads Taming of the Shrew is likely going to be offended rather than aided. You'd have to emphasis that the idea wasn't to follow Kate's submission exactly, but emulate the general idea that each partner should act within their role in the relationship. I think a blog series is one possibility for that, especially if you'd like to target women--they're all over the blogging community.
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