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TygrBright

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1. The best interpretation I ever saw...

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 01:02 PM

Jul 2018

...had Kate and Petruchio as (essentially) two misfits in the society of their day, finding each other, and hammering out a bond based on their mutual contempt for its conventions.

They played the final "my hand is ready, may it do him ease" speech as a kind of inverted irony.

It worked because of the casting and the direction, but I'm not sure Shakespeare would have recognized it.

bemusedly,
Bright

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"Taming of the Shrew" several different views [View all] niyad Jul 2018 OP

The best interpretation I ever saw... TygrBright Jul 2018 #1

I wish I could have seen THAT production. may I ask where/who? etc? niyad Jul 2018 #2

If I recall correctly, it was a video... TygrBright Jul 2018 #3

thanks. I just googled it-the video is available, so I will have to get it later. niyad Jul 2018 #4