Common themes in Richard Hooker and William Shakespeare?

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I came across the below statement in one of Brad Littlejohn's books. Does anyone know what were the parallel themes in The Taming of the Shrew and The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity?

While Hooker was in London drafting his Laws, Shakespeare was just on the opposite bank of the Thames writing The Taming of the Shrew (which has some interesting thematic parallels with the Laws, actually) ...

W. Bradford Littlejohn, Richard Hooker: A Companion to His Life and Work (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015), p. 3.
 
While not professing to read Littlejohn's mind, two obvious points that come up would be submission to authority and questions of grace and forgiveness. Marilynne Robinson has recently drawn attention to the neglect of grace as a Shakespearian theme.
 
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