UID:
(DE-602)gbv_1689048425
Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 video file (53 min., 12 sec.)))
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sound, colour
Series Statement:
Shakespeare uncovered. Series 2 episode 1
Content:
Morgan Freeman first discovered Shakespeare in school in Mississippi. He went on to play the hero of this play, Petruchio, in The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production in New York, set in the Wild West. Freeman notes this play has set the template for all of the battle-of-the-sexes comedies that have followed, many a romantic comedy has 'The Taming of the Shrew' running through its veins. It's a love story between two unlikely characters. The shrew is Katherine, a woman who is bitter, viperish, wild - or simply not prepared to accept the conventions of her time - and thus 'unmarriageable'. Petruchio is after a wife, and the wealthier the better
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9790000000031.01
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9790000000031.01
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