There are many similarities along with differences between Shakespeare’s Taming of The Shrew and Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You. The basis of Shakespeare’s play is still mainly transferable into the late 1990’s when the movie was released, along with almost 20 years after that into today’s culture. Although the basis of the play is still relatable, there are obviously a lot of points in Shakespeare’s original play that are not because of how society has changed and what is now seen as acceptable compared to Shakespeare’s time. Taming of The Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You have many similarities such as Bianca and Katerina have the same names, Kat is the sister that is the shrew, Bianca is the lovely one everyone wants, and Cameron pretends to know French so that he can tutor Bianca. Although these examples are similar to the play, they are not exactly the same. For instance, in Taming of The Shrew, Bianca and Katerina’s last name is Baptista but in the movie their last name is Stratford, and Cameron pretends to know French to tutor Bianca when in the story Lucentio was an overall school teacher for Bianca. Some differences between the two are that Bianca is using Cameron, there is not a distinct Gremio, and there are teachers at the school that are not included in the play. In the movie at the beginning after Cameron …show more content…
The basis of Shakespeare’s play is still mainly transferable into the late 1990’s when the movie was released, along with almost 20 years after that into today’s culture. Although the basis of the play is still relatable, there are obviously a lot of points in Shakespeare’s original play that are not relatable because of how society has changed and what is now seen as acceptable compared to what was acceptable in Shakespeare’s time when the play Taming of the Shrew was