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    The Taming of the Shrew and Ten Things I hate about You In the Shakespeare`s summarized version of play The Taming of the Shrew we travel approximately four hundred years back in time during the growing period of Renaissance and the reign of the Queen of England‚ Elizabeth I‚ where Shakespeare shows us the dominance of men in relation to women‚ with setting in Padua (current Italy) while the movie Ten Things I hate about You‚ successfully updated version of The Taming of The Shrew adapted to contemporary

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    I don’t like to do what people expect.” This line from the character Kat in 10 Things I Hate About You accurately summarises the attitudes of both her own character and her doppelganger‚ Katherina‚ in The Taming of the Shrew. These texts show us that the differing contexts and societal values of the texts influence directly the development and growth within the characters. The parallels and differences between Kate’s transformations in William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Gil Junger’s

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    10 Things I Hate About You/Taming of the Shrew Comparison Both 10 Things I Hate About You and the play Taming of the Shrew have a lot in common. One of those things is the shared premise. What is premised from the beginning is that there is this woman that nobody really likes Katherine (the “Shrew”) in the movie or Katarina in the play. Then her father makes a rule that Kat must get a husband/date before Bianca‚ the younger and fairer of the two‚ can have a husband/date. So the guy that

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    hundred years. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a grand narrative - its themes transcend time‚ place‚ culture and context. Owing to the plays universal themes and timeless elements‚ the test has been skillfully and cleverly appropriated to be valued in various periods of time. The film 10 things I hate about youm composed in 1999 by writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith‚ Kiss Me Kate directed by Georfe Sydney and Shakespeare Retold - The taming of the Shrew directed by Davud

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    The story of The Taming of the Shrew is one that raises important issues both in the Shakespearean text and in the modern appropriation 10 Things I Hate About You. How does each composer’s use of this story reflect the time in which each was composed" The Taming of the Shrew was written in the Elizabethan Era in England at a time when men were considered to be superior to women. The patriarchal society of this time is reflected to a large extent in the text and various implications of traditional

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    hundred years. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a grand narrative- its themes transcend time‚ place‚ culture and context. Owing to the plays universal themes and timeless elements‚ the text has been skilfully and cleverly appropriated to be valued in various periods of time. The film 10 Things I Hate About You‚ composed in 1999 by writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirstin Smith‚ Kiss Me Kate directed by George Sydney and Shakespeare Retold- The Taming of the Shrew directed by David

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    Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew from the Elizabethan England period and Gil Junger’s teenage film Ten Things I Hate About You‚ released in 1999‚ share many similar elements but at the same time seem completely different from each other. Although both stories work with similar plots‚ many aspects of the Ten Things I Hate About You‚ which is an appropriation of The Taming of the Shrew‚ have been altered to suit the teenage audience of the late 1990’s. Both stories deal with relationships with

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    Shakespeare wrote a play called “Taming of the Shrew”. This play was based on the Elizabethan ideals and judgments of marriage‚ love‚ money and social status of the time. However‚ since then the stereotypes of these ideals have been changed and modernised. In 1999‚ Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith wrote the Movie “10 Things I Hate About You” (a modern adaption of the 16th century play originally written by Shakespeare). Even though “10 Things I Hate About You” is a more relatable text towards

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    In the movie “10 Things I Hate About You”‚ there are a lot of similarities to “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare. For example‚ most of the similarities have to do with power relationships‚ courtship and dating‚ and sisters. The main characters in both the writing and movie have the same personalities. Bianca is played as the perfect innocent teenager and Kate is portrayed as a spiteful‚ bad tempered person. Also‚ their father is still very strict. As one would think‚ the themes between

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    In the movie‚ the characters that resemble those of the play‚ The Taming of the Shrew‚ have many similarities and many differences from the characters in the play. Also‚ the setting of the movie is very different from that of the play. The two characters I chose from the movie were Cameron and Joey Donnor. The character of Cameron from “10 Things I Hate About You” resembles the character Lucentio from the play. I believe that these two characters are very different from each other. The character

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