something comes between them and in the end they reunite. Add a few Shakespear-ish names‚ a few Shakespear quotes‚ and you get "10 Things I Hate About You". Now I’m not saying "10 Things" is a bad movie‚ but its a much weaker‚ tamer version of "Taming of The Shrew". They share only the initial set-up and can hardly be called the same story. In the begining of "10 Things.." the father‚ Walter‚ will not allow his youngest daughter‚ Bianca‚ to date until his oldest daughter Katarina‚ Kat for short‚ dates
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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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Katherine the Shrew Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew is comedy about Kathrine‚ an outspoken rebellious shrew. In this story she is paired up with Petruchio‚ a man who only wanted her for her money and so Bianca could marry one of her suitors. As time goes on Petruchio is able to tame his wife Katherine‚ at least somewhat. Taming of the Shrew has spun out many different versions of its story‚ mostly in movies. Both movie versions‚ Shakespeare Retold and 10 Things I Hate About You where based and
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It is not at all certain that Kate is tamed by her husband; rather through the situations he involves her in‚ she develops‚ moving from a selfish girl lashing out in defence against her father’s favouritism‚ to a more mature woman who finally sees adult life is made of compromises. Many critics see Act IV‚ Scene 5 as marking the point of Kate’s defeat. In reality‚ she is not defeated at all. The game which she has played expertly up until the time of her marriage (getting her way through ranting
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play‚ Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and the modern movie 10 Things I hate about you are correspondent to each other in many ways. They have very similar characters names and their behaviors‚ similar plots‚ and themes. The characters are very similar to each other because in Taming of the Shrew‚ the main character’s name is Katarina and in 10 Things I hate about you the main character’s name is Katherina‚ or Kat for short. Katarina and Katherine are both well known as the “shrew” of
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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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The basic plots of Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You both involve multiple men wanting to be with a nice‚ beautiful girl named Bianca‚ but Bianca has a mean‚ older sister named Katherine that no one wants to be with. In both of the stories‚ the father of these two
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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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Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew‚ Kate transforms from a shrew to an obedient wife because of Petruchio’s taming tactics. Kate changes into an obedient wife in the end because Petruchio fully tames her. As the play moves along‚ Kate begins to show signs of changing but still demonstrates her shrewish ways because Petruchio does not have total control of her yet. Because of the need to be disciplined‚ Kate displays shrewish behavior. Kate showcases the qualities of being a shrew in the beginning
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LITERATURE THE CONTEMPORARY SHREW: AN ANALYSIS OF TWO MODERNISED FILM APPROPRIATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE ’S THE TAMING OF THE SHREW BA thesis LIIS KAASIK SUPERVISOR: LECT. RAILI PÕLDSAAR TARTU 2008 ABSTRACT The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the contemporary context and genre conventions have affected the representation of different characters and the plot in two modernized film versions of The Taming of the Shrew‚ ShakespeaRe-Told Taming of the Shrew (2005)‚ directed by David Richards
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