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 Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival "The Taming of the Shrew" 2006 "The Tempest", "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) " 2005 "Hamlet", "As You Like It" 2004 "Julius Caesar", "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" 2003 "Othello", "Macbeth" 2002 "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", "King Lear", "Cymbeline" 2001 "Twelfth Night", "Measure for Measure", "Romeo and Juliet" 2000 "The Taming of the Shrew", "The Winter's Tale", "Hamlet" The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival is an annual Shakespearean theatre festival in Philadelphia. Every year, The Festival produces two or three productions of Shakespeare's plays. Starting out as the Red Heel