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 evidence for an "Ur-Shrew", to argue that the reporter of "A Shrew" attempted to recreate the complex subplot from "The Shrew" but got confused; "the compiler of "A Shrew" while trying to follow the subplot of "The Shrew" gave it up as too complicated to reproduce, and fell back on love scenes in which he substituted for the maneuvers of the disguised Lucentio and Hortensio extracts from "Tamburlaine" and "Faustus", with which the lovers woo their ladies." After little further discussion of the issue in the 1970s, the 1980s saw the publication of three scholarly editions of "The Shrew", all