The Taming of the Shrew on screen been reworked numerous times for both cinema and television. Some of the better known adaptations include "Kiss Me Kate", a 1953 filmic adaptation of Cole Porter's 1948 musical based on the play, "McLintock!" (1963), "Il Bisbetico Domato" (1980), "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999), "Deliver Us from Eva" (2003) and "Isi Life Mein...!" (2010). The earliest cinematic adaptation of the play is D.W. Griffith's eleven-minute "The Taming of the Shrew", made for Biograph in 1908, starring Florence Lawrence as Katherina and Arthur V. Johnson as Petruchio. The blurb for the film stated "if we could see ourselves as others
Shrew (stock character) psychological manipulation (without animal abuse), were reused by William Shakespeare in his play "The Taming of the Shrew", which closes with the reformed shrew giving a monologue on why wives should always obey their husbands. This overall plot structure was retained in various works of silent-era and post-Second World War cinema. Elements of the shrew-taming plot are still used today, though with less patriarchal messages since the rise of feminism. "The Taming of the Shrew" has itself led to various modern, loose adaptations to current societal views in differing Western and Eastern industrialised societies, while retaining the stock character and