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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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 Kat
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“I don’t like to do what people expect.” This line from the character Kat in 10 Things I Hate 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
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Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew from the Elizabethan England period and Gil Junger’s teenage film Ten Things I Hate About You‚ released in 1999‚ share many similar elements but at the same time seem completely different from each other. Although both stories work with similar plots‚ many aspects of the Ten Things I Hate About You‚ which is an appropriation of The Taming of the Shrew‚ have been altered to suit the teenage audience of the late 1990’s. Both stories deal with relationships with
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The movie Ten Things I Hate About You is a modern(ish) day interpretation of the Shakespeare 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
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This book is from the author named Randa Abdel- Fattah who finally published her second book named “10 Things I Hate About Me”. 10 Things I Hate About Me covers many issues during youth while telling a completely unique story about a girl named Jamilah Towfeek. She lives in Sydney’s Western Suburbs. Jamilah’s is a Lebanese-Muslim‚ but she hides her true identity just to feel “fit in” with her peers at school. She decided to change herself 360 degree and turns to girl named Jamie. Jamie has her dyed
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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 Richard are just some examples of texts that were skillfully appropriated. In the movie‚ many actors paly roles based ypon characters in the play by Shakespeare. Some examples of this are: Patrick (or ’Pate;) playing the role of Petruchio. Walter (Kat and Bianca’s father) plays
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10 Things I Hate About You & The Taming of the Shrew The historical and cultural contexts of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (TTS) and the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You (10TIH) differ exceptionally‚ resulting in the film’s expression of values unlike those expressed in Shakespeare’s original text. Shakespeare’s play was written during the Elizabethan era‚ during which the belief that men were superior to women was prevalent. This concept is centralised in TTS‚ through incorporation
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I have heard this comparison many times‚ and‚ because I had such a wonderful English teacher in high school‚ years ago‚ after reading Shakespeare’s Taming Of The Shrew‚ we watched 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). Firstly‚ the character lists deserve mention: in Shakespeare’s Taming Of The Shrew‚ "the shrew" refers to Katherine‚ and‚ in the film‚ "the shrew" corresponds to Katarina (or ’Kat’); in the play‚ the "tamer of the shrew" refers to Petruccio‚ while the "tamer" in the film corresponds to
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I hate the boring music you play‚ and the basic plot and theme‚ I hate the plain and idle settings‚ and the characters with low esteem‚ I hate your big dumb actor profiles and the way you speak their mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick‚ it even makes me rhyme. I hate the way you prove me wrong‚ and hate it when I lie‚ I hate it when you make me laugh‚ even more when you make me cry‚ I hate it when you don’t make sense‚ and for the fact I cannot say. That I mostly hate
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