"The Taming of the Shrew 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, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship; however, Petruchio ""tames"" her with various psychological torments, such"
"23 December 2001. Bianca (Othello) Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ""Othello"" (c. 1601–1604). She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to incite Othello's jealousy of Cassio. Bianca is traditionally regarded as a courtesan, although this occupation is not specifically designated in the drama. The character was occasionally cut from performances in the 19th century on moral grounds. Bianca is not to be confused with Bianca Minola in Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"". ""Othello"" has its source in the 1565 tale ""Un"
"Bianca (Othello) Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ""Othello"" (c. 1601–1604). She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to incite Othello's jealousy of Cassio. Bianca is traditionally regarded as a courtesan, although this occupation is not specifically designated in the drama. The character was occasionally cut from performances in the 19th century on moral grounds. Bianca is not to be confused with Bianca Minola in Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"". ""Othello"" has its source in the 1565 tale ""Un Capitano Moro"" from"
"of love in this exchange: Gremio and Tranio literally bid for Bianca. As Baptista says, ""'Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both/That can assure my daughter greatest dower/Shall have my Bianca's love"" (2.1.344–346). The first opera based on the play was Ferdinando Bertoni's opera buffa ""Il duca di Atene"" (1780), with libretto by Carlo Francesco Badini. Frederic Reynolds' ""Catherine and Petruchio"" (1828) is an adaptation of Garrick, with an overture taken from Gioachino Rossini, songs derived from numerous Shakespeare plays and sonnets, and music by John Braham and Thomas Simpson Cooke. Starring Fanny Ayton and James William"
"the facts of Chater's death – this discovery totally discredits his theory and vindicates Lord Byron's reputation. While Septimus awaits appropriate music for Thomasina's dance lesson, he examines the sketch she made to illustrate the irreversibility of heat; his action mirrors that of Hannah and Valentine, who also pondered the same diagram. Bernard is caught in a compromising position with Chloe, and is asked to depart. Eventually a waltz starts, and Septimus dances with Thomasina, their relationship increasingly complicated by hints of romance. Gus (Valentine and Chloe's younger brother, who has been silent for the entire play) hands another of"
"as the female leads in the original play. Their surname is Stratford, a nod to Shakespeare's birthplace. Patrick's surname Verona references the home of his relative character Petruchio. The characters attend Padua High School, named after where the play is set. Cameron (Lucentio, who disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio) tutors Bianca in French and slips in a line from play while obsessing over her: """"I burn, I pine, I perish"""". Patrick's character reflects the outlandish behavior of Petruchio, and Michael coerces Patrick into the marching band incident with the words from Sonnet 56: """"Sweet love, renew thy force""""."
"to be partly rehabilitated and is considered by some Russian musicologists the ""most successful Russian opera based on Shakespeare."" The music is in a traditional high-spirited opera buffa idiom. Bianka, the youngest daughter of Paduan merchant Baptista Minola, has won the hearts of two young noblemen, Liuchentsio and Gortenzio, who are in competition for her affections. However, Baptista will not allow his youngest daughter to marry until his oldest daughter, the tempestuous Katerina, has married. The two young nobleman conspire together to marry off Katerina so they may freely compete for Bianca. The two men recruit Hortensio's visiting friend, the"
"Maggie Teyte in the title role. Bianca (opera) Bianca is a one act opera by American composer Henry Kimball Hadley. The opera's libretto was an English-language adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's comedy ""The Mistress of the Inn"" by Grant Stewart. Hadley finished the score in January, 1917, and entered it in a competition for the best American opera without chorus, for which William Wade Hinshaw offered a $1000 prize and a promise to produce the opera in New York City by the American Society of Singers. It won, and was produced on October 19, 1918, at the Park Theater in Manhattan,"
"Wallack, the opera premiered at Drury Lane, but it was not successful, and closed after only a few performances. Hermann Goetz' ""Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung"" (1874), with libretto by Joseph Viktor Widmann, is a comic opera, which focuses on the Bianca subplot, and cuts back the taming story. It was first performed at the original National Theatre Mannheim. John Kendrick Bangs' ""Katherine: A Travesty"" (1888) is a Gilbert and Sullivan-style parody operetta which premiered in the Metropolitan Opera. Spyridon Samaras' ""La furia domata: commedia musicale in tre atti"" (1895) is a now lost lyric comedy with libretto by Enrico Annibale Butti"
"it became one of the most popular and often performed plays in Benson's repertory. The play was regularly performed there until the 1920s and was revived at theatres around the country up to 1932. Starring Benson's wife, Constance Benson and Benson himself as Petruchio, Benson followed Daly's example in rewriting and restructuring, such as truncating the Bianca subplot. Unlike Daly, however, Benson also removed the Induction. The production was very much a farce, with the emphasis on broad physical comedy in which Petruchio athletically leaps about the stage terrorizing a relatively passive Katherina. In its early days, it received generally"
"see us what models we would become."" Also released in Italy in 1908 was the seven-minute ""La bisbetica domata"", directed by Azeglio Pineschi and Lamberto Pineschi. There is no known cast list for this film. Unlike all other silent adaptations, this version retains the Katherina/Bianca sibling rivalry. In 1911, F.R. Benson directed a twelve-minute silent filmed extract from his own Shakespeare Memorial Theatre production, starring himself and his wife, Constance Benson. The film presented a heavily truncated pantomime version of the story, with pieces of Shakespeare's original text used as intertitles throughout. It is now believed lost, although several stills"
"Charles Kemble had also staged the play, acting alongside his own wife, Marie Thérèse Kemble, in 1802. Much of Shakespeare's dialogue is reproduced ""verbatim"". Much of the plot is also similar; Petruchio vows to marry Catharine before he has met her, she smashes a lute over the music tutor's head, Baptista fears no one will ever want to marry her; the wedding scene is identical, as is the scene where Grumio teases her with food; the haberdasher and tailor scene is very similar. At the end, however, there is no wager. Catharine makes her speech to Bianca, and Petruchio tells"
"Another famous fantasy episode was ""Atomic Shakespeare,"" which featured the cast performing a variation of ""The Taming of the Shrew"", with David in the role of Petruchio, Maddie as Katharina, Agnes as Bianca, and Herbert as Lucentio. The episode featured Shakespearean costumes and mixed the Shakespearean plot with humorous anachronisms and variations on ""Moonlighting""'s own running gags, including David riding in as Petruchio on a horse with BMW logos embroidered on its saddle blanket and repeatedly launching into the wrong Shakespearean soliloquy until the rest of the cast corrects him on which play he is in, and the Blue Moon"
"Katinka (operetta) Katinka is an operetta in three acts composed by Rudolf Friml to a libretto by Otto Harbach. It was first performed at the Park Theatre in Morristown, New Jersey, on December 2, 1915, with May Naudain in the title role and subsequently received its Broadway premiere on December 23, 1915 at the 44th Street Theatre. ""Katinka"" marked the third collaboration between Rudolf Friml and his lyricist Otto Harbach. The show's producer, Arthur Hammerstein, had also produced Friml and Harbach's ""The Firefly"" (1912) and ""High Jinks"" (1913). The work was originally entitled ""Elaine"", after Hammerstein's daughter, who had a"
"the bonds of love."" Perhaps the most common interpretation in the modern era is that the speech is ironic; Katherina has not been tamed at all, she has merely duped Petruchio into thinking she has. Two especially well known examples of this interpretation are seen in the two major feature film adaptations of the play; Sam Taylor's 1929 version and Franco Zeffirelli's 1967 version. In Taylor's film, Katherina, played by Mary Pickford, winks at Bianca during the speech, indicating she does not mean a word of what she is saying. In Zeffirelli's film, Katherina, played by Elizabeth Taylor, delivers the"
"argues the following: Jonathan Miller, director of the 1980 ""BBC Television Shakespeare"" adaptation, and several theatrical productions, argues that although the play is not misogynistic, neither is it a feminist treatise: An element in the debate regarding the play's misogyny, or lack thereof, is the Induction, and how it relates to the Katherina/Petruchio story. According to H.J. Oliver, ""it has become orthodoxy to claim to find in the Induction the same 'theme' as is to be found in both the Bianca and the Katherine-Petruchio plots of the main play, and to take it for granted that identity of theme is"
"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"
"set in a contemporary high school. In the 2006 Hindi film adaptation ""Omkara"", the character was renamed ""Billo Chamanbahar"" and played by Bipasha Basu. In this variation, the Bianca character is not given a handkerchief, but a jewelled belt called a kamarbandh. On television, Betsy Blair played the character in a 1955 BBC adaptation with Gordon Heath as Othello and Rosemary Harris as Desdemona. Wendy Morgan played Bianca in 1981 in the critically acclaimed BBC complete Shakespeare series. The character was renamed ""Lulu"" and played by Rachael Stirling in an award winning modern English telemovie first broadcast on ITV on"
"strong reviews, but by 1910, the political climate had changed somewhat; the 1909 Stratford by-election had seen suffragette protests, and henceforth some critics expressed discomfort with Benson's use of farce to depict what had now become a socially relevant situation. Indeed, in the 1912 season, suffragette activist Violet Vanbrugh replaced Constance Benson in the role of Katherina, although her performance was roundly criticised for failing to bring the anticipated political edge to the character. Another husband and wife team who had a long and successful run with the play was Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton. First staged in 1899 in"
"particularly when Petruchio discusses taming strategies. The ending of Shakespeare's play ""The Taming of the Shrew"", particularly the question of whether Katharine is actually 'tamed' or not is frequently debated. Garrick's play provides a narrower interpretation than Shakespeare's ambiguous ending. There is no wager. Instead, Catharine makes her speech to Bianca, though without the offer to put her hand beneath her husband's foot. Her reasons for women's subordination, namely that their ""soft and weak and smooth"" bodies are unsuited for life outside the home, are omitted, as are her assertions that ""my mind hath been as big as one of"
"Sebastian (Twelfth Night) Sebastian is one of the main characters from William Shakespeare's play ""Twelfth Night"", believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. It has been played by several famous actors, and even by actress Vivien Leigh in an acclaimed production directed by John Gielgud in 1955. Sebastian is the twin brother of Viola. After the beginning of the play, Viola mentions that her brother Sebastian is drowned in the sea. The next appearance of Sebastian denies this, as he has been rescued by Antonio, a sea Captain who looks after Sebastian at some risk to himself. Their"
"National Programme aired another truncated version, this one running eighty-five minutes, and again starring Couper, with Francis James as Petruchio. In 1935, Peter Creswell directed a broadcast of the relatively complete text (only the Bianca subplot was trimmed) on National Programme, starring Mary Hinton and Godfrey Tearle. This was the first non-theatrical version of the play to feature Sly, who was played by Stuart Robertson. In 1941, Creswell directed another adaptation for BBC Home Service, again starring Tearle, with Fay Compton as Katherina. In 1947, BBC Light Programme aired extracts for their ""Theatre Programme"" from John Burrell's Edinburgh Festival production,"
"3 starring Beth Chalmers as Bianca, John McAndrew as Leantio, Bill Wallis as Guardiano and Sara McGayghe as Isabella. A musical adaptation is being workshopped ahead of performances in May 2017 with students of the Single Honours Musical Theatre course at University of Chichester. Women Beware Women Women Beware Women is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton, and first published in 1657. The date of authorship of the play is deeply uncertain. Scholars have estimated its origin anywhere from 1612 to 1627; 1623–24 has been plausibly suggested. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 9 September 1653"
"The physicality of Petruchio and Katherina is transformed into a playful paintball match; the prom substitutes for the Act V feast; Kat's poem replaces Katherina's famous Act V speech; and Joey Donner's wager over Bianca's virginity parallels the bet placed by Shakespeare's husbands regarding their partners' obedience. 10 Things I Hate About You 10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, is a loose modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th century"
"of Englishmen and women in Naples at Carnival time. ¤ In the original 1677 production, Anne Marshall played Angellica Bianca and Elizabeth Barry was Hellena. Scene 1<br> Hellena, a young woman about to enter a convent, questions her sister Florinda about whom she loves. Florinda admits she loves Belvile, an English colonel, but her father is determined that she would marry the elderly Don Vincentio (who never actually appears in the play). Further complicating matters, Florinda's brother, Don Pedro, wants Florinda to marry his friend Don Antonio. Don Pedro enters with Stephano (his servant) and Callis (the sisters' governess). Pedro"
"brother. It opened in Monte Carlo in 1899 and went on to Covent Garden. The ailing Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw the Bordeaux production and was inspired to paint six scenes from it, including ""Messalina Seated"" and ""Messalina descending the staircase"". In 1914 there was a 3-act German Expressionist tragedy by , ""Kaiserin Messalina"". And in 2009 the theme was updated by Benjamin Askew in his UK play ""In Bed With Messalina"", which features her final hours. From the last quarter of the 19th century onwards, the role of Messalina has been as much about the stardom of those who played"
"Bianca (opera) Bianca is a one act opera by American composer Henry Kimball Hadley. The opera's libretto was an English-language adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's comedy ""The Mistress of the Inn"" by Grant Stewart. Hadley finished the score in January, 1917, and entered it in a competition for the best American opera without chorus, for which William Wade Hinshaw offered a $1000 prize and a promise to produce the opera in New York City by the American Society of Singers. It won, and was produced on October 19, 1918, at the Park Theater in Manhattan, with the composer conducting, and soprano"
"Twelfth Night Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with"
"longer valid. Lilli leaves—without Howell—as Fred unsuccessfully tries to convince her to stay (""So in Love"" (Reprise)). The gangsters get caught on stage and improvise a tribute to Shakespeare in which they explain that knowing Shakespeare is the key to romance (""Brush Up Your Shakespeare""). The company prepares for the conclusion of the play, the wedding of Bianca and Lucentio, even though they are now missing one of the main characters. However, just in time for Katherine's final speech, Lilli arrives onstage (""I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple""). Fred and Lilli wordlessly reconcile on stage, and the play"
"small children to play with and a dog to tease, and sews their shirtsleeves closed to welcome them properly! ""Cymbeline,"" the play that Emily and Jessup see being rehearsed at their father's theatre, is one of William Shakespeare's last plays. It details the adventures of Princess Imogen (played in this version by the actress Meg), whose father King Cymbeline refuses to let her marry the noble but poorly born knight Leonates Posthumus. King Cymbeline instead insists that she marry her stepbrother, the evil Prince Cloten. Imogen runs away into the Welsh mountains, where she meets Morgan (played in this production"
"for how Pickford delivers Katherina's last speech. As she moves though the litany of reasons why a woman should obey her husband, she winks toward Bianca (Dorothy Jordan), unseen by Petruchio. Bianca smiles in silent communication with Katherina, thus acknowledging that Katherina has not been tamed at all. The film opens with a Punch and Judy puppet show which several critics have argued performs a similar function to the Christopher Sly Induction in the original play, but also works to instill a sense of false anticipation in the audience; the puppet show ends with Judy sinking lovingly into Punch's arms"
"""Ford's most typical play."" The play is, in one view, ""the most puzzling of Ford's works,"" and in another, ""a botched mess."" Phillippo Caraffa, Duke of Pavia, has accidentally caught sight of a beautiful young woman named Bianca, the daughter of a Milanese gentleman, while he was hunting. Caraffa falls in love with her, and marries her. Yet the Duke's close friend Fernando also falls in love with the new duchess; she rejects him at first, but eventually acknowledges similar feelings for him. Fiormonda, the widowed sister of Caraffa, has long suffered an unrequited passion for Fernando; she perceives the"
"also based his Franceschina in ""The Dutch Courtesan"" on Bianca Maria.) An account of Bianca Maria's life and death was included by Matteo Bandello in his 1554 ""Novelle"" collection. François de Belleforest translated Bandello's account into French in 1565, which in turn appeared in English as the 24th story in William Painter's ""Palace of Pleasure"" (1567). The critical response to ""The Insatiate Countess"" has compared and contrasted the sexual morality of the play with Marston's other works. The play's richness in female characterisation, with four prominent women's roles, has also been noted. As the play opens, Countess Isabella is at"