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The Tamings of the Shrews. Dir. Various. Perf. Various. Various Years. Various Formats.
The results came in on the poll about which play(s) / film(s) to cut from the Shakespeare and film syllabus. No one wanted to cut Richard III or Henry V; the votes were almost right down the middle for cutting either The Merchant of Venice or The Taming of the Shrew.
So I kept them both and added The Tempest.
I know, I know. The whole point was to streamline the syllabus to make room for additional works. And I've added works without subtracting any. But I couldn't not have Kiss me, Kate. It's just such a marvelous musical! And I really couldn't not present my students with the extraordinary power of Trevor Nunn's Merchant. And the Mary Pickford / Douglas Fairbanks Taming of the Shrew is extraordinarily important for an understanding of cinema history (and it's the only full-scale, Hollywood studio, feature-length version of a Shakespeare play that we cover in full in the class).
So I've re-arranged things so that we watch pieces of most of these, and I hope that will whet the students' appetites for more, more, more!
Speaking of more, here are some more images of each of these actors in these roles:
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Merchant of Venice. Dir. John Sichel Perf. Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, and Michael Jayston. 1973. Videocassette. LIVE Home Video, 1993.
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Merchant of Venice. Dir. Trevor Nunn. Perf. Gabrielle Jourdan and Lawrence Werber. 2001. Videocassette. Lexington Road Entertainment Group, 2001.
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Merchant of Venice. Dir. Michael Radford. Perf. Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Finnes, and Lynn Collins. 2004. DVD. Sony Pictures, 2005.
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The Taming of the Shrew. Dir. Sam Taylor. Perf. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. 1929. DVD. Aikman Archive, 2005.
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The Taming of the Shrew. Dir. Franco Zeffirelli. Perf. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. 1967. DVD. Sony, 1999.
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Kiss me, Kate. Dir. George Sidney. Perf. Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, and Ann Miller. 1953. DVD. Warner Home Video, 2003.
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