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Sailor Steve · 07-02-10, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Ahh yes Ive heard about 'Taming of the Shrew' No never read it though.

Anyways im cat food

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."

frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The truth is I'm so Shakespeare-challenged that it wasn't until a couple of decades ago when I saw the BBC version of MacBeth with Jeremy Brett that I know where the legendary quote on alcohol "increaseth the desire while it decreaseth the performance" came from.

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.

frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

What light through yonder browser window breaks? It is the internets, and fair Frau Kaleun is the sun. Too bad I have to minimize it so I can work on homework for a few minutes, rather than screwing around on subsim. Fate is a cruel mistress.

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

Sailor Steve · 07-02-10, 09:51 PM

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!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...O/imdb-button/

frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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!

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."

Gerald · 07-02-10, 10:23 PM

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

Platapus · 07-02-10, 11:05 PM

Shakespeare?

What a phony.

He like totally stole from West Side Story dude!

fer sure!

frau kaleun · 07-02-10, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Shakespeare?

What a phony.

He like totally stole from West Side Story dude!

fer sure!

He was depraved on accounta he was deprived.

Sailor Steve · 07-03-10, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Shakespeare?

What a phony.

He like totally stole from West Side Story dude!

fer sure!

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

Buddahaid · 07-03-10, 11:59 AM

Walrus?

aergistal · 07-03-10, 12:38 PM

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

frau kaleun · 07-03-10, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Walrus?

Jimbuna · 07-04-10, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

What light through yonder browser window breaks? It is the internets, and fair Frau Kaleun is the sun. Too bad I have to minimize it so I can work on homework for a few minutes, rather than screwing around on subsim. Fate is a cruel mistress.

conus00 · 07-04-10, 10:42 AM

Fitting, considering the forum I am on right now.

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...

)

frau kaleun · 07-04-10, 01:26 PM

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...O/imdb-button/ __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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