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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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    The contrasting cast of William Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” & Gil Junger’s “10 things I hate about you” After watching both the play “Taming of the Shrew” and the movie “10 things I hate about you” I notice several differences‚ but equally enjoyed them both despite the lack of direct parallelism. If I had to choose between the two I would definitely say I enjoyed “Taming of the Shrew” in its original form‚ but “10 things I hate about you” had a modern-day twist that made it more relatable

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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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    The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s more renowned romantic comedies. Perhaps the most popular adaptation of this play is 10 Things I Hate About You ‚ a critically acclaimed film starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. In this essay‚ I will discuss the date of production of 10 Things I Hate About You. I also aim to discuss the relevance of the production date‚ and the significance it has on many of the choices made behind the scenes of this Shakespeare adaptation. The character of Katherine

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    LITERATURE THE CONTEMPORARY SHREW: AN ANALYSIS OF TWO MODERNISED FILM APPROPRIATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE ’S THE TAMING OF THE SHREW BA thesis LIIS KAASIK SUPERVISOR: LECT. RAILI PÕLDSAAR TARTU 2008 ABSTRACT The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the contemporary context and genre conventions have affected the representation of different characters and the plot in two modernized film versions of The Taming of the Shrew‚ ShakespeaRe-Told Taming of the Shrew (2005)‚ directed by David Richards

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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 basic plots of Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You both involve multiple men wanting to be with a nice‚ beautiful girl named Bianca‚ but Bianca has a mean‚ older sister named Katherine that no one wants to be with. In both of the stories‚ the father of these two

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    In the movie “10 Things I Hate About You”‚ there are a lot of similarities to “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare. For example‚ most of the similarities have to do with power relationships‚ courtship and dating‚ and sisters. The main characters in both the writing and movie have the same personalities. Bianca is played as the perfect innocent teenager and Kate is portrayed as a spiteful‚ bad tempered person. Also‚ their father is still very strict. As one would think‚ the themes between

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    ‘A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money’( W.C Fields). The main male characters in “The Taming of The Shrew” and “Ten Things I Hate About You”‚ Petruchio and Patrick‚ have three things in common‚ the lust for money‚ the lust for power‚ and the lust for women. In the 1967 version of the play‚ originally written by Shakespeare‚ Petruchio is portrayed as brute only thinking about money and himself. In the 1999 version Patrick is portrayed as a charming‚ smooth talker that doesn’t care about

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