The Taming of the Shrew

Look at the way people dress. Listen to the words of music. Look closely at the plot in movies. We do not often know that some of these are often influenced by the most famous writer and playmaker, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare has influenced quite a bit of today's modern culture through tragic, comical, and love filled writings and plays he wrote in the Renaissance period. We often see remakes of his romantic play, Romeo and Juliet, or his tragic play, Macbeth. Movies such as The Lion King…

“To be or not to be” wrote William Shakespeare in his play Hamlet. Or did he? For years intellectuals have debated whether Shakespeare really wrote his 154 sonnets and 37 plays (Pruitt). Despite the present-day lack of evidence to prove Shakespeare’s authorship and the myriad theories to the contrary, the balance tips toward concluding that Shakespeare is the one true author of his impactful collection of works. When people start to question the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays they…

William Shakespeare was known to have no birth records. But he was baptized on April 26th, 1564, which makes scholars think he was born near or on April 23rd, 1564. Most scholars think he was born on that date so thats what they refer to when he was born. William Shakespeare was about 5’9 and around one hundred and fifty pounds according to scholars. He was right handed. He had long curly hair and a trimmed beard. He had green eyes, and he was white. William Shakespeare's home town was about…

I was definitely a gender nonconforming child. I wanted to play softball, which my parents were okay with. My grandmother wasn’t. She felt that it wasn’t proper for young ladies to play sports, especially ones which involved me coming home with a skinned elbow and dirt-stained pants. She would always say things like “this is a boy sport” and “you look like a boy!” I never really saw a problem with this, but the way she said it, I could tell that it was something ‘wrong.’ Which is why I bit my…

Shakespeare as many would say is/was one of the world’s greatest play writers in the history of playwriting. To this very day students memorize his many different poems and reinterpret the words of the text he written. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon a town 100 miles NW of London, He was born April 23, 1564 and sadly died on the same day 52 years later. On the contrary to that Shakespeare father John was a man of many jobs; he was into farming, wood trading, tanning,…

Jasper, Summer and Dak, known more commonly as ‘The Trio’ have created a television series they – and I as their manager - believe will be ‘the next big thing’ in the television market. Their show is a teen drama essentially taking Shakespeare’s well known characters and placing them in a modern day high school setting. For instance Macbeth is the Vice Principle who eventually manages to oust the Principle and take over his position. Romeo and Juliet are high school sweethearts, still from…

Especially within Shakespeare plays, the tempest, the taming of the shrew, Merchant of Venice, and so on. Commedia dell'arte had great influence of Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado about Nothing". This form of theatre shows many comparisons to the Shakespearian comedy. Commedia dell'arte created elements within a comedy…

William Shakespeare (within the class system of Elizabethan England) did not seem intended for enormity. He was not born into a gracious or wealthy family. He did not continue his formal education at university, nor did he take guidance of a senior artist. He didn’t marry to a wealthy or prestigious family. Since he is not been casting for starring roles, his talent appears to have been self-effacing as an actor. As a playwrighter, his success depends in part upon royal sponsorship. In spite of…

and Fitzgerald and her mother to characters in the plays her mother acts in. In fact, Bechdel elucidates the dynamic of her parents relationship through a comparison with Katherine and Petruchio’s tumultuous entanglement in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. In this way, Bechdel fills the lack of affection with her parents with literary representations. Similarly, in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, he loses his mother in childbirth, meaning his mother is literally absent from his entire…

and movies. No dramatist in history has wielded such influence" (Dunton-Downer & Riding 467). Shakespeare 's plays have been made into Star Trek episodes. They have inspired Broadway hits, such as Kiss Me Kate from Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew or West Side Story from his Romeo and Juliet. They have been made into countless film adaptations, which feature Shakespeare 's stories deposited into settings ranging from American drug gangs to Great Britain in 1930s (Dunton-Downer &…