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“10 Things I Hate About You” is a modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's “The Taming Of The Shrew”. Although the setting, Padua High School, kind of offsets expectations for an adaptation of a Shakespeare play, the movie is one of my all time favorites. It is hard to compare a modern day teen comedy to a Shakespearean play wrote during the late 1500's. I believe the movie “loosely” gets Shakespeare's point across. I do not think he envisioned his setting in an American high school with snobs,preps, rebels, and nerds as the major characters. I did not know that this movie was based off of “The Taming Of The Shrew” until I did my Shakespeare assignment over Heath Ledger. I am glad society can still reflect back to the roots of literature.
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ReplyDeleteI think these modernized movies might help the younger generation understand Shakespeare's work a little easier. Some of Shakespeare's work might be hard for them to follow.
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