The Taming of the Shrew steps forward and speaks directly to the audience as herself; "Well, I must own, it wounds me to the Heart/To play, unwomanly, so mean a Part./What – to submit, so tamely – so contented,/Thank Heav'n! I'm not the Thing I represented." Cole Porter's musical "Kiss Me, Kate" is an adaptation of "Taming of the Shrew". The music and lyrics are by Porter and the book is by Samuel and Bella Spewack. It is at least partially based on the 1935/1936 Theatre Guild production of "Taming of the Shrew", which starred husband and wife Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, whose backstage
The Taming of the Shrew on screen annoyed that he has to read "The Shrew" for his homework, rather than watching his favourite programme, "Moonlighting" itself. He goes to his room and begins reading, and the episode then takes place in his mind as he imagines the members of the cast of "Moonlighting" in an adaptation of the play itself, with Cybill Shepherd as Katherina and Bruce Willis as Petruchio. In 1994, BBC aired an as part of "". This version adapted the end of "The Taming of a Shrew" to round out the frame; after Sly announces he now knows how to tame a shrew, he