10 Things I Hate About You tuxes came from Isadora's in Seattle. The primary tagline is an allusion to a poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from her Sonnets from the Portuguese collection. ("How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.") Another tagline is a spoof from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" ("Romeo, Oh Romeo, Get Out Of My Face.") and another is a line from "The Taming of the Shrew" that is spoken in the film by Cameron ("I burn, I pine, I perish!"). The original script was finalized on November 12, 1997. In its opening weekend, the film grossed US$8,330,681 in 2,271 theaters
The Taming of the Shrew Richard Burton. The 1999 high school comedy film "10 Things I Hate About You" is also loosely based on the play. "Characters appearing in the Induction:" Prior to the first act, an induction frames the play as a "kind of history" played in front of a befuddled drunkard named Christopher Sly who is tricked into believing that he is a lord. The play is performed in order to distract Sly from his "wife," who is actually Bartholomew, a servant, dressed as a woman. In the play performed for Sly, the "shrew" is Katherina, the eldest daughter of Baptista Minola, a