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
The Taming of the Shrew transcribe it for resale; "underpinning the notion of a 'Shakespearean bad quarto' is the assumption that the motive of whoever compiled that text was to produce, differentially, a verbal replica of what appeared on stage." Miller believes that Chambers and Kirschbaum successfully illustrate "A Shrew" does not fulfil this rubric. Alexander's theory continued to be challenged as the years went on. In 1942, R.A. Houk developed what came to be dubbed the "Ur-Shrew" theory; both "A Shrew" and "The Shrew" were based upon a third play, now lost. In 1943, G.I. Duthie refined Houk's suggestion by arguing "A Shrew" was