The Taming of the Shrew

1908
17m

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5.4/10

176

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Comedy Romance Short

Based on Shakespeare's play: Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.Based on Shakespeare's play: Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.Based on Shakespeare's play: Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

176

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This film is posted online to the Library of Congress' National Screening Room.

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The Taming of the Shrew review

D. W. Griffith was still learning his craft when he took on the Bard with this adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Unable to call upon Shakespeare's words, Griffith resorts to physical comedy to deliver the crude message that to win the heart of a violently psychotic wife one has to pretend to be even more violently psychotic than her. Florence Lawrence and Arthur V. Johnson look like they had a lot of fun banging heads together.