558: A Product of Its Time

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Shakespeare Club returns! “The Taming of the Shrew” is a Shakespeare play that’s crying out to be adapted for modern audiences, which is why it keeps being adapted—with varying degrees of success. We discuss the play, the unpleasant Franco Zeffirelli 1967 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the film and TV versions of Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate,” the teen rom-com “10 Things I Hate About You,” and even the 1980s TV adaptation on “Moonlighting,” which might be the best of the bunch? What we’re saying, Shakespeare, is that we’ve got some notes....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 558, March 2021.
0:10.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.0	This is another edition of our Shakespeare Club.
0:16.0	And for some reason, I decided we would do, because it's not a drama, it's a comedy.
0:20.0	I thought we would alternate.
0:21.8	We're doing a taming of the shrew here on Shakespeare Club.
0:25.0	I asked everybody because apparently I was misled and told that the movie version of this to watch was Franco Zefferelli's 1967 adaptation.
0:34.3	I also watched some other adaptations and, you know, I consulted my complete Shakespeare.
0:39.7	And we're here to talk about this play that has stuck with us for nearly 500 years. I wonder why.
0:47.0	Joining me to talk about it are the following people. David J. Lour is here. Hello.
0:51.3	Hello. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I have come to
0:55.1	Wyvet Wellley in Padua. Okay. Yeah. Good to note. Good to note. Moises Chouyan is also here.
1:01.9	Hello. In contrast, I've come to podcast angrily incomparable.
1:06.8	Shelley Brisbane also joins us. Hello. I'm upset that David stole my line.
1:12.6	If I be washbis, washbis, I don't do that.
1:15.9	If I be waspice, best be wear my sting.
1:19.9	Fair, fair.
1:20.7	And Philip Michaels also joins us.
1:22.4	Hello, Bill.
1:23.4	Yes, I'm looking forward to the chance to discuss this searing tragedy where a man psychologically
1:30.0	torments a woman into obedience. It's a comedy. What? That's the funny wacky. It's madcap.
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