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    The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device...
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  • adaptations of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The best-known cinematic adaptations are Sam Taylor's 1929 The Taming of the Shrew and Franco Zeffirelli's...
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  • The Taming of the Shrew is a 1967 historical romance comedy film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, based on William Shakespeare's play about a courtship...
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    The theme is illustrated in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew. As a reference to actual women, rather than the stock character, the shrew is...
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  • The Taming of the Shrew in performance has had an uneven history. Popular in Shakespeare's day, the play fell out of favour during the seventeenth century...
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    Fiona Shaw (category Honorary commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew (1987), Lady Franjul in The New Inn (1987), Young Woman in Machinal (1993), for which she won the Laurence Olivier...
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  • The Taming of the Shrew is a ballet in two acts choreographed by John Cranko to keyboard works by Domenico Scarlatti arranged and orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz...
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    The Taming of the Shrew is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Sam Taylor and starring Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks. It...
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    Peter Gadiot (category English people of Dutch descent)
    theatre and played the lead role of Petruchio in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington DC. From 2016 to...
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    list of the stationer Christopher Hunt lists the play as printed in quarto among other works by Shakespeare: marchant of vennis, taming of a shrew, .....
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  • The Taming of the Shrew is an opera in three acts by composer Vittorio Giannini. The work uses an English language libretto by Dorothy Fee and the composer...
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  • Oliver Chris (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    the life of Oliver Chris, actor". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 June 2011. Marlowe, Sam (24 March 2007). "The Taming of the Shrew"...
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  • The Taming of the Shrew is a 1908 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company of New York City...
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    Viola tricolor (category Flora of the United Kingdom)
    comprehension of fairies and mortals alike. Shakespeare mentions it in his play The Taming of the Shrew where Luciento claims he found the effect of love-in-idleness...
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    Anton Lesser (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    Hamlet (the titular character of his play), Brutus (Julius Caesar), Petruchio (The Taming of the Shrew), Richard III (the titular character of his play)...
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    III (1592–1593) The Comedy of Errors (1592–1593) Titus Andronicus (1593–1594) The Taming of the Shrew (1593–1594) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594–1595)...
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    anglicisation of the Italian name Petruccio, pronounced [peˈtruttʃo]) is the male protagonist in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1590–1594). In the play...
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    Aaron Thiara (category Alumni of East 15 Acting School)
    He also appeared in their production of The Taming of the Shrew later that year. In 2022, he was cast in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as villain Ravi...
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  • and Marina. The Taming of the Shrew, aired in 2016, starred Ben Carlson as Petruchio and Deborah Hay as Katharina. "About CBC Presents The Stratford Festival"...
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    Marc Singer (category American people of Polish-Jewish descent)
    of the Shrew, as well as Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac. Both Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano were filmed. Singer appeared in the last episode of season...
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    Katherina (Kate) Minola (category The Taming of the Shrew)
    Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew. Referred to in the play as the titular "shrew" and the "ingenue", the play focuses on Katherina's taming by Petruchio...
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    Sinéad Cusack (category Irish people of English descent)
    nominations for As You Like (1981), The Maid's Tragedy (also 1981), The Taming of the Shrew (1983), Our Lady of Sligo (1998) and Rock 'n' Roll (2007)...
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    Christopher Sly (category The Taming of the Shrew)
    Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He is a drunk man who is easily dominated by women, set up as a foil to Petruchio, the central male character in the play...
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    Pericles, Prince of Tyre* The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest* Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen* The Winter's Tale** Cymbeline*...
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  • Kate - the Taming of the Shrew [Kate – La bisbetica domata] is a 2004 stop-motion-musical adaptation film of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, directed...
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  • Minola") is the "shrew" from the title of The Taming of the Shrew, who is "tamed" by Petruchio. Queen Katherine of Aragon (hist) is the first wife of King Henry...
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    played the lead role of Petruchia in the RSC's staging of The Taming of the Shrew at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Price won the award...
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  • The Taming of the Shrew (Russian Ukroshchenye stroptivoy, Cyrillic Укрощение строптивой) is a 1957 opera in four acts, five scenes by Vissarion Shebalin...
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    reproach" (4.1.89–94). In The Taming of the Shrew Act 2, Scene 1, Petruchio promises Baptista, the father of Katherine (the Shrew), that once he marries...
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    Rufus Sewell (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    pieces, such as the role of Petruchio in the BBC's 2005 version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. This was shown as part of the ShakespeaRe-Told...
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