The Framing of the Shrew: how the lens looks upon William Shakespeare's "The taming of the Shrew"

• Autores: Sofia de Melo Araújo
• Localización: Relational designs in literature and the arts: page and stage, canvas and screen / Rui Carvalho Homem (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-90-420-3581-2, págs. 57-69
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • William Shakespeare's "The Taming of tbe Shrew" is commonly labelled by informal readers as a misogynistic, inappropriate munor play an anachronism. And yet it continues to be read, played on stage and versioned in film as if creators today were able to perceive an added dimension of meaning in it. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual readings tend to introduce changes to Kate that adjust her to our contemporary expectations and demands. This paper strives to address this issue by taking a comparative look at three modern versions of the play: Franco Zeffirelli's 1967 "The Taming of the Shrew", Gil Junger's 1999 "10 Things I Hate about you" and David Richard's (and Sally Wainright's) 2005 "Sakespeare Re-Told - The Taming of the Shrew"