Sisters Kate and Bianca appear in which of Shakespeare's plays?
Bianca Minola forcefully brought to Lucentio by Kate, Bianca insists that her husband was a fool to set store by her obedience. Throughout the play, there is evidence of sibling rivalry between Bianca and Kate as Kate accuses Bianca of being their father's "treasure" and the one that he wishes to have married first. In one scene, Kate ties Bianca's hands and whips her, in an attempt to discover which of her suitors Bianca likes the best (Bianca however insists that she has yet to meet a suitor that she truly loves). Linda Arvidson plays Bianca in the first screen version of
Bianca Minola the play directed by D.W. Griffith (1908). Dorothy Jordan plays Bianca in the first "talkie" film version of the play with Mary Pickford as Kate and Douglas Fairbanks as Petruchio. Natasha Pyne renders the role in the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor as Kate and her then-husband Richard Burton as Petruchio. Susan Penhaligon appears as Bianca in the 1980 BBC television production directed by Jonathan Miller. Laura Boccanera plays Bianca in the most recent film version of the play, "Kate - La bisbetica domata" (2004) which was billed as the first-ever stop-animation movie made in Italy. In the modern movie