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 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