10 Things I Hate About You as the female leads in the original play. Their surname is Stratford, a nod to Shakespeare's birthplace. Patrick's surname Verona references the home of his relative character Petruchio. The characters attend Padua High School, named after where the play is set. Cameron (Lucentio, who disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio) tutors Bianca in French and slips in a line from play while obsessing over her: ""I burn, I pine, I perish"". Patrick's character reflects the outlandish behavior of Petruchio, and Michael coerces Patrick into the marching band incident with the words from Sonnet 56: ""Sweet love, renew thy force"".
7 Things most about her ex, with the seventh item being her frustration that despite his flaws, he makes her love him. Ben Ratliff of "The New York Times" noted that the list actually "runs to 8 to 11 things, depending on how you parse it". Henry Freedland of "Paste" magazine compared it to a similar list featured as a poem in the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You". In one verse, Cyrus asks for a sincere apology and states, "If you text it, I'll delete it", which Molly Lambert of "The New York Times" said "perfectly captur[es] our confusing