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
Shakespeare in performance and prompting a small Broadway success and a national tour. Other notable productions of the 20th century that follow this trend of relocating Shakespeare's plays are H.K. Ayliff's "Macbeth" of 1928 set on the battlefields of World War I, Welles' "Julius Caesar" of 1937 based on the Nazi rallies at Nuremberg, and Thacker's "Coriolanus" of 1994 costumed in the manner of the French Revolution. In 1978, a deconstructive version of "The Taming of the Shrew" was performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. The main character walked through the audience toward the stage, acting drunk and shouting sexist comments before he