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The Taming of the Shrew is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Sam Taylor and starring Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks. It was the first sound film adaptation of the Shakespearean play of the same name. The film was adapted by Taylor from William Shakespeare's play.
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, [a] in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.
The first sound adaptation of the play was in 1929; Sam Taylor's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (the first sound adaptation of any Shakespeare play [7]). This version was simultaneously shot as a silent film, and, depending on whether a given theatre was equipped to screen sound films, was released both as ...
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack.The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi.
Giannini began composing The Taming of the Shrew in 1938 while finishing work on his earlier opera, The Scarlet Letter.He worked sporadically on the opera over the next 12 years; often interrupted by a variety of other music projects and distractions related to World War II that took his attention away from the project.
The Taming of the Shrew is a 1967 historical romance comedy film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, based on William Shakespeare's play about a courtship between two strong-willed people in 16th-century Italy.
In the musical adaptation Kiss Me, Kate, The Taming of the Shrew is a play-within-the-play, and Bianca is played by an actress called Lois Lane. In the 1953 film version Bianca/Lois is played by Ann Miller.
The first known adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew was The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed, a sequel written by John Fletcher c.1611. [6] In Fletcher's play, Katherina has died, and Petruchio has remarried, to an equally fiery woman named Maria.