William Shakespeare's play "The taming of the shrew" is a lighthearted, slapstick comedy written in the 1590's. This particular era is classified as the Elizabethan era. This famous play has been chiefly based on courtship and the concerns of married life. Both of these characteristics were profoundly relevant to society at this time, in fact this was a society concerned with marriage in general. People living in this ... being brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state." This idea of one "taming a shrew" is brought out through the main plot of the willful Kate and the equall...

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... , has been uncompromising and firm in her rejection of societal norms, suddenly backs down and conforms to the hegemonic perspective of the times, that women are to be entirely submissive to their husbands. To this end, Shakespeare once again reinforces a strictly patriarchal hegemony. The film 10 Things I Hate About You is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The majority of the characters are the same. In addition to Kat (Katherine) and Bianca ... , the film includes Patrick Verona as Petruchio, Cameron as Lucentio, Michael as Tranio, and Walter Stratford as Bap...

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... , has been uncompromising and firm in her rejection of societal norms, suddenly backs down and conforms to the hegemonic perspective of the times, that women are to be entirely submissive to their husbands. To this end, Shakespeare once again reinforces a strictly patriarchal hegemony. The film 10 Things I Hate About You is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The majority of the characters are the same. In addition to Kat (Katherine) and Bianca ... , the film includes Patrick Verona as Petruchio, Cameron as Lucentio, Michael as Tranio, and Walter Stratford as Bap...

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• Grade Level: High School

... creating characters that inspire so much controversy. One will see that while Shakespeare, ostensibly conforms to his contemporaneous attitudes of women, he actually circumvents them by creating resolute female characters with a strong sense of self. The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era with adaptations into popular films such as ... that one begins to see an evolution in her character. Through an elaborate charade of humiliating behavior, Petruchio humbles her and by the end of the play, she will instruct other wo...

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