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 1591, which places the date of composition around 1590–1591. The 1594 quarto of "A Shrew" was printed by Peter Short for Cuthbert Burbie. It was republished in 1596 (again by Short for Burbie), and 1607 by Valentine Simmes for Nicholas Ling. "The Shrew" was not published until the "First Folio" in 1623. The only quarto version of "The Shrew" was printed by William Stansby for John Smethwick in 1631 as "A Wittie and Pleasant comedie called The Taming of the Shrew", based on the 1623 folio text. W.W. Greg has demonstrated that "A Shrew" and "The Shrew" were treated as