In the 1500’s William 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
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Is 10 Things I Hate About You simply The Taming of the Shrew relocated to high school? Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You is undoubtedly more complicated than a relocation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew into high school. The transformation of Shakespearean comedy into the ‘teen’ movie genre and the integration of Elizabethan values enable the film to be a successful relocation of the play‚ yet the incorporation of modern gender conventions discerns it as something more than a relocation
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IntroductionThe Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeares most popular plays. Its wit and comedy revolves around Kate Minola‚ a strong-willed woman who is seen as a shrew due to her unwillingness to conform to the unwritten rules of lady-hood and Pertruchio who is convinced he was born to tame [Kate]. The most obvious and major question would then be‚ was Katherine tamed by the end of the play? To be tamed‚ one would have to be forcibly changed into submissive obedience. A tamed being would obey
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Lenses by Annie Dillard Annie Dillard wrote on her experience with analyzing other forms of life. She inadvertently discovered that she and other human beings were not alone in the world. She described her different views of the world by either using a microscope‚ to see a world too small to see with the naked eye‚ or binoculars‚ to see a world that appears to be sightly never ending. Dillard recalls as a child obbessing over watching the algae in her “child’s microscope set”. She was so
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The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s more renowned romantic comedies. Perhaps the most popular adaptation of this play is 10 Things I Hate About You ‚ a critically acclaimed film starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. In this essay‚ I will discuss the date of production of 10 Things I Hate About You. I also aim to discuss the relevance of the production date‚ and the significance it has on many of the choices made behind the scenes of this Shakespeare adaptation. The character of Katherine
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10 Things I Hate About You & The Taming of the Shrew The historical and cultural contexts of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (TTS) and the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You (10TIH) differ exceptionally‚ resulting in the film’s expression of values unlike those expressed in Shakespeare’s original text. Shakespeare’s play was written during the Elizabethan era‚ during which the belief that men were superior to women was prevalent. This concept is centralised in TTS‚ through incorporation
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The Comparison of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew‚ and the Work of William Shakespeare Between the years of 1588 and 1613‚ Shakespeare wrote 38 plays. His dramatic work is commonly studied in four categories: comedies‚ histories‚ tragedies‚ and romances. Although we commonly single out William Shakespeare’s work as extraordinary and deserving of special attention‚ at the time of the plays performances‚ they were typically released as popular entertainment. Where as Shakespeare’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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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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