Find a copy of the movie version with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It's shortened but has all the essentials. You'll laugh yourself silly, and find out where Monty Python got a lot of their ideas.

I showed it to a friend a couple of years ago. When it came to the 'wasp' sequence he said "Shakespeare actually wrote that?"

"Yep," says I, "five hundred years ago."

I don't know if it's still true but when I was in school we were taught that there were two works of literature that, between them, were the source of more common English "turns of phrase" than anything else ever written in the language. One was the King James Bible, and the other was "Hamlet."

Today of course that place of honor would probably go to icanhascheezburger.com, lol.

The course of u-boat love never did run smooth.

HOLY MACAROLEYS!

I didn't know it was even available. The absolute best filmed version of Taming Of The Shrew was done in 1976 by the San Francisco Repetory Theater. It starred Marc Singer, much maligned for movies like The Beastmaster, but brilliant on stage in this production.

And it's available on DVD! I just ordered my copy! :rock:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...O/imdb-button/

There was also a version done with John Cleese as Petruchio, which is the only version I've seen. (I've seen bits of the Burton/Taylor film but not all the way through.) Probably was a BBC production that was shown here on PBS. They ran a whole series of Shakespeare plays that were originally produced for the BBC.

Don't know if it was the same series - probably not - but I still remember seeing Derek Jacoby as Hamlet and Ian Holm as Lear on PBS.

One of the US cable channels (USA? A&E? can't remember) also did a version of "King Lear" starring Patrick Stewart... but they set it in Texas in the 1840s.

Of course IMO the ultimate adaptation of Lear is Kurosawa's "Ran."

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The answer gives me...wild dog,no further comment :hmm2:

Shakespeare?

What a phony.

He like totally stole from West Side Story dude!

fer sure!

He was depraved on accounta he was deprived.

Isn't that where he got the idea for Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138097/

Walrus?

I'm a swan. I can follow a career in arts..ok done, what next?

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...nus00/wolf.jpg

Fitting, considering the forum I am on right now. :D
On second hand there are few fact in the description which are off.
(and I'm not sure about being in same category with Hillary Clinton... :D)