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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 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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    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 10 Things I Hate About You are drawn through the use of characterisation and the strong tones

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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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    Taming of the Shrew and 10 things I hate about you Taming of the Shrew is a famous play written by William Shakespeare. In the modern day version‚ 10 things I hate about you‚ Gil Junger explores the relationship between men and women. Junger has taken Shakespeare’s ideas of favouritism‚ how looks can be deceptive and a person’s basis for a relationship and has put them into an up to date teenage friendly format. The relationship between fathers and daughters is often quite difficult. In Taming

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    To create a modernised version of Shakesphere’s original; Taming of the Shrew (Shrew)‚ Gil Junger devised a plot‚ with added themes and characters to adjust the shift in era and target audience. This is shown perfectly in 10 Things I Hate About You (10 things). Within the two texts‚ intextuality is illuminated through the use of appropriation and transformation. This is clear when analysing the change in context and form. The form of both texts is completely different. One being‚ an Elizabethan 16th

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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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    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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