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 contains the line "He calls his Kate, and she must come and kiss him." This must refer to "The Shrew", as there is no corresponding "kissing scene" in "A Shrew". There are also verbal similarities between both "Shrew" plays and the anonymous play "A Knack To Know A Knave" (first performed at The Rose on 10 June 1592). "Knack" features several passages common to both "A Shrew" and "The Shrew", but it also borrows several passages unique to "The Shrew". This suggests "The Shrew" was on stage prior to June 1592. In his 1982 edition of the play for The