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 H.J. Oliver suggests, there are "passages in ["A Shrew"] [...] that make sense only if one knows the [Follio] version from which they must have been derived." The debate regarding the relationship between the two plays began in 1725, when Alexander Pope incorporated extracts from "A Shrew" into "The Shrew" in his edition of Shakespeare's works. In "The Shrew", the Christopher Sly framework is only featured twice; at the opening of the play, and at the end of Act 1, Scene 1. However, in "A Shrew", the Sly framework reappears a further five times, including a scene which comes after