558: A Product of Its Time

Published: March 20, 2021, 11:10 p.m.

b'Shakespeare Club returns! \\u201cThe Taming of the Shrew\\u201d is a Shakespeare play that\\u2019s crying out to be adapted for modern audiences, which is why it keeps being adapted\\u2014with 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\\u2019s \\u201cKiss Me, Kate,\\u201d the teen rom-com \\u201c10 Things I Hate About You,\\u201d and even the 1980s TV adaptation on \\u201cMoonlighting,\\u201d which might be the best of the bunch? What we\\u2019re saying, Shakespeare, is that we\\u2019ve got some notes.'