#Taming of the Shrew

[mrs-starkgaryen]

Favourite Shakespeare's Comedies

After my other poll, I am going to be specific. There shall be a battle of the favourites!!

For-

Two Gentleman of Verona (comment 🐕)

Winter's Tale (comment ⌛️)

For the love of Shakespeare, please reblog for a better analysis

[transsexualcoriolanus]

obsessed with tragedies that were almost comedies and comedies that were almost tragedies and comedies in which the happy ending is actually tragic

[sea-owl]

You know what era of romcoms I miss? It's the early 2000s teen romcoms that were based on classic literature. They were some of my favorite ones, and yeah, some were loosley based, but they still hit those important bases, and they were so much fun.

We had:

Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew - 10 Things I Hate About You

Shakespeare's 12th Night - She's the Man

Snow White - Sydney White

Cinderella - A Cinderella Story, What a Girl Wants

Little Mermaid - Aquamarine

Jane Austen's Emma - Clueless

The Scarlett Letter - Easy A

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet - Warm Bodies

Shakespeare's Midnight Summer's Dream - Get Over It

Pygmalion - She's All That

Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor - John Tucker Must Die

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility - Material Girls

I might be missing some, but I remember just having fun with these. One of my English teachers also showed us a few of these movies while studying Shakespeare to show how pieces of literature can change over the years and inspire other's own takes.

[cabbage20122]

Taming of the Shrew is so funny, like there's a story inside of another story, half of the characters in both are disguised as someone else, and the only character who actually gets everything he wants in the end does it by being as annoying as he possibly can.

Hortensio: I can't marry Bianca until someone marries her older sister, but I wouldn't wish that girl on any- hey Petruccio you said you wanted to marry rich, right?

Petruccio: Your daughter is definitely in love with me, she's just pretending to hate me in front of other people because she's shy. Can we get married?

Baptista: How sweet! Absolutely

Katherine, standing right next to him: the audacity-

Katherine: sister bonding~ tell me who you have a crush on!

Bianca, crying: please untie me

Lucentio: I'm not actually a tutor, I switched places with my servant to woo you in secret

Bianca: Good start, but you call this wooing? You can do better

There's some old guy named Gremio who also wants to marry Bianca but he doesn't really do much

The wedding is not shown, but apparently Petruccio shows up hours late dressed in the most ridiculous articles of clothing he could find (and all of them are clashing) and riding a horse riddled with every disease under the sun (intestinal worms, tumors, a stuffy nose, etc.) punched the priest, and threw wine in his face because his beard was so thin it looked hungry.

On the way to his house, Katherine's horse falls in the mud and somehow lands on top of Katherine

Grumio, shivering: hey I've been sent to make sure the house is ready. Also can you light a fire?

Curtis: are they coming to the house now?

Grumio: yes, now about that fire

Curtis: is she as rude as they say?

Grumio: please I'm so cold

Curtis: i want gossip

Katherine, sleep-deprived and starving: can I have some food?

Grumio: sure would you like some beef and mustard?

Katherine: yes, that sounds great!

Grumio: ah, but the mustard might make your stomach hurt

Katherine: that's OK, I'll just have beef

Grumio: well, I can't just give you beef without mustard. . .

Katherine: just give me something I don't care

Grumio: would you like just mustard

Katherine, hangry: would you like to die

Petruccio: this dress is horrible, I didn't order this!

Tailor: your servant gave me instructions on how to make it, I just followed those

Grumio: ok but I didn't instruct you to make it ugly

Lucentio, conning a foreigner into pretending to be his dad so he and Bianca's dad can discuss the marriage between Bianca and the servant pretending to be Lucentio: I'm such a genius this plan can't possibly go wrong

Lucentio's actual dad: I think I'll go visit my son

Petruccio: it's 7 am, so if we leave now, we'll get to your father's house at lunchtime

Katherine: it's 2 pm, we won't get there til supper

Petruccio: do you have to disagree with everything i say? Maybe we won't go

Katherine: wait no I want lunch-

Lucentio: hi dad, meet my new wife!

Vincentio: . . .

Lucentio: Ok I'm sorry I got you arrested for impersonating yourself but in my defense-

Petruccio: wow, the moon is so bright

Katherine: it's the middle of the day, that's the sun

Petruccio: again with the arguing? Let's go back

Hortensio: are you kidding me we walked all this way

Katherine: WOW, LOOK AT THE MOON

When they finally get to the house for dinner, Katherine and Petruccio win a bet against the other couples and brag about how they're better than everyone there.

And the whole thing is just an elaborate prank on some random drunk guy WHO IS NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN AFTER ACT 1

[misslevel]

Couldn't fit all the comedies in the 12 options, so made separate polls for Problem Plays and Late Romances.

(Also: Shakespeare poll tag, for all the different genres.)

[thoraeth]

Ava and Buggy in some sort of Taming of the shrew AU? He's the shrew obviously.

Little birthday nonsense for me 🎂🎉

[doomsdayoption]

Angela has Shakespeare's complete works + journals + books about him oh god I think I have fallen in love.

[beesposting]

if i had a nickle for every podcast starring angela giarratana that included taming of the shrew readings that premiered this week, i'd have two nickles. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[poetrysweetashoney]

[the-noisiest-pumpkin]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “taming of the shrew” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yea whatever I dont feel shit

five minuets later: I’m telling you man i need to marry bianca

my buddy tranio, pacing: we need to swap clothes right now

[ladyartichokie]

It's just occurred to me that if I didn't already have a book picked out for my senior thesis (Taming of the Shrew, my beloved), exploring the themes of Hope vs. False Hope vs. Reason in Emma by Jane Austen would be fascinating to explore.

[ladysophiebeckett]

Should have said earlier, I'm pregnant. What?! Yes. Oh! That's amazing. However-- Hm? You'll have to look after them because I'm not giving up my career. Yes, fine.

[televisionquoteseverywhere]

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Cameron James & Patrick Verona

[sea-owl]

Hey, I have a question. Does anyone know if Julia Quinn took inspiration from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew when she wrote The Viscount Who Loved Me? Because I just reread that play and I see similarities.

I kinda like the idea that she did because we know AOFAG was based on Cinderella, and RMB has aspects from the Odyssey in it. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Shakespeare inspired some of her writing decisions.

[fayegonnaslay]

Meryl Streep in rehearsal for the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Delacorte Theater, 1978.

[misslevel]

Don't just vote for your fave play, vote for your fave title drop!

If you have another one that I missed, put it in the tags and I might make a second poll!