I love this play, but I'll be honest: I've watched "10 Things I Hate About You" more times than I've read The Taming of the Shew! It's such a fun movie. :)
That, and the version of "Much Ado About Nothing" with Kenneth Branagh. XD
I wish there was as entertaining a movie for The Taming of the Shrew! I love Kenneth's Benedick and Emma Thompson's Beatrice. I tried watching the Elizabeth Taylor version on Netflix and I quickly grew disinterested. Perhaps Richard Burton's Petruchio was a bit too bearlike for my taste!
"10 Things I Hate About You" = fantastic! And I love Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado" too. :)
In my Shakespeare class in undergrad, my prof advanced the interpretation that Kate actually flouts the conventions of the ideal Renaissance woman while pretending to obey them. At the end of the play, she gives a really long speech about how women should obey their husbands -- yet the ideal woman of that time was supposed to be silent. So really, although Kate conforms outwardly, she and Petruchio are pretty evenly matched by the end!
Ah, I am totally for that interpretation! One of my favorite lines is when Kate vows to always speak her mind:
"Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak, And speak I will. I am no child, no babe. Your betters have endured me say my mind, And if you cannot, best you stop your ears. My tongue will tell the anger of my heart Or else my heart, concealing it, will break, And rather than it shall, I will be free Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words" (IV.3.73-80)
Now that line no longer seems to clash with her speech at the end!
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That, and the version of "Much Ado About Nothing" with Kenneth Branagh. XD
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In my Shakespeare class in undergrad, my prof advanced the interpretation that Kate actually flouts the conventions of the ideal Renaissance woman while pretending to obey them. At the end of the play, she gives a really long speech about how women should obey their husbands -- yet the ideal woman of that time was supposed to be silent. So really, although Kate conforms outwardly, she and Petruchio are pretty evenly matched by the end!
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"Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak,
And speak I will. I am no child, no babe.
Your betters have endured me say my mind,
And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break,
And rather than it shall, I will be free
Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words" (IV.3.73-80)
Now that line no longer seems to clash with her speech at the end!
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