classic Taming of The Shrew. The movie followed pretty close to the plot of the play‚ but with some obvious differences. In a handful of paragraphs‚ I plan to compare the two‚ along with answering the various questions you have provided us. There are many similarities between the movie and the play. Bianca and Kat in both the play and movie have the same names. The rest of the main characters are mostly present‚ but with different names. The plot of Petruchio taming Katherina (the shrew) is very
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Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew (ca. 1593) centered around the stormy courtship between the fortune-hunting Petruchio and Katherine‚ a headstrong woman. After a lengthy battle of the wills‚ the couple come to love each other and Katherine accepts her role as submissive wife. Kiss Me Kate incorporates Shakespeare’s text in the "onstage" portions of the film‚ and parallels the play’s romantic themes in the relationships of the two couples.William Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew (ca. 1593)
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it is almost 15 years old. The film is based on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy‚ The Taming of the Shrew‚ but has been made to be understood by people in the 90’s. America has made some huge technological advances since the 17th century. Technology plays a huge part in our life from the internet to even the movies. The film explores the ideas of dating‚ individualism and trust. In contrast to The Taming of the Shrew‚ 10 Things I Hate About You was created to encourage female independence and control
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The Taming of the Shrew‚ by William Shakespeare‚ illustrates an interesting marriage situation involving two sisters and their many suitors. Although Shakespeare considered the play a comedy because the main character does not die‚ it maintains a negative tone throughout the play. None of the characters in the play display virtuous characteristics‚ but Petruccio stands out as the least saintly person in the play because of his greed and domineering nature. Petruccio first exemplifies his evil personality
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In this essay I will be using the school of New Historicism and Feminism in order to write a comparative analysis of William Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. I will discuss how intertwined the relationship between historical and textual is in Shakespeare’s play‚ and how it is almost impossible to study the play outside its social context. I will pay particular focus on New Historicisms substantial emphasis on ideas of power and consider Michel Foucault’s essay ‘Discipline and Punish’ in
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adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew‚ the writers of Ten Things I Hate About You had to change elements of the original story to make it more accessible to contemporary audiences. Though the setting and theme of the story are very different from the original‚ there are clues throughout Ten Things I Hate About You that pay homage to the Shakespearean play. With Ten Things I Hate About You‚ the screenwriter and director successfully update The Taming Of The Shrew for modern audiences. The
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to the ideas brought forth in The Taming of the Shrew because Doyle and Shakespeare both portray women to be subservient to men. In Shakespeare’s comedy‚ Taming of the Shrew‚ the main character Katherine marries a man by the name of Petruchio and throughout the play he begins to control her because she is deemed crazy in society’s standards. In both the play and article women are supposed to give men all of the control in the marriage. The definition of a shrew is an easily-tempered or aggressively
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writing and unforgettable music and lyrics‚ make for a rich and fascinating musical for all ages. The eternal tug-of-war between the sexes is perfectly captured in Kiss Me‚ Kate‚ with a sophisticated humor that charms audiences every time. The Taming of the Shrew examines the "natural" order amongst the sexes‚ as understood by the English of the late sixteenth century. It explores the traditional role of the dutiful daughter and dutiful wife. At a time it was written‚ Queen Elizabeth proved that a woman
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The film 10 Things I Hate About You is a successful adaption of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Although the themes‚ plots and characters in each text are very similar the modern adaption of The Shrew is appealing to a modern audience because of the changes the director has made. The film targets a teenage audience therefore the language the characters use is modernised. For example‚ Bianca and Kat speak to each other in a colloquial‚ aggressive style. At the beginning of the film Bianca asks
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literature there are common themes that occur throughout eras and genres to link two otherwise different pieces of writing. One particular example of this occurrance can be seen in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Although these works have been written in very different time periods and use separate styles‚ there are two themes which link both stories and convey a very similar message. Strict societal roles and the treatment of women in patriarchal societies
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