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 names of Tranio and Grumio. Efforts to establish the play's date of composition are complicated by its uncertain relationship with another Elizabethan play with an almost identical plot but different wording and character names, "A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called the taming of a Shrew". "The Shrew"s exact relationship with "A Shrew" is unknown. Different theories suggest "A Shrew" could be a reported text of a performance of "The Shrew", a source for "The Shrew", an early draft (possibly reported) of "The Shrew", or an adaptation of "The Shrew". "A Shrew" was entered in the Stationers' Register on 2 May 1594,