Learning on ScreenTaming of the Shrew, The
- Alternative title
- The Shakespeare Plays
- Synopsis
- Television production of the play, with John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherina.
- Series
- BBC Television Shakespeare
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain; United States
- Medium
- Television
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 18 Jun 1980
- Transmission details
- 23 Oct 1980 at 21:30 (Channel: BBC2)
- Duration
- 125 mins
Credits
- Director
- Jonathan Miller
- Producer
- Jonathan Miller
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Stephen Oliver
- Costume
- Alun Hughes
- Art Direction
- Colin Lowrey
- Contributor
- David Snodin
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Television and Radio Drama
- Historical period
- Renaissance Italy
- Plays
- Taming of the Shrew, The
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- drama in English; performances; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Related items
- Taming of the Shrew, The
- Taming of the Shrew, The
Notes
- Notes
- The production is commercially available on DVD as part of the BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION box set (see separate entry).
- History
- This production is part of the third season (producer: Jonathan Miller). Recording took six days.
- Stills
- The setting recalls Sebastiano Serlio’s comic scene sketches while the interior design is influenced by 17th century Dutch paintings.
- Textual information
- In this BBC production producer/director Jonathan Miller decidewd to cut the Christopher Sly ‘Induction’.
Between 1978 and 1986 the BBC published individual scripts of the series. Each volume of The BBC TV Shakespeare, ed. Peter Alexander et al. (London: British Broadcasting Corporation) contains the full text of the play (the Peter Alexander edition) with accompanying notes on the scene breaks and cuts made in the production, as well as a glossary. A general introduction to the play by series literary advisor John Wilders is followed by an essay on the production of the play by Henry Fenwick. This is based on interviews with actors, directors, and designers. - Reviews
- Susan Willis, The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Name
Time-Life Films Inc
- Phone
- 0101 201 843 4545
- Address
- PO Box 644
NJ 07652
USA
Distributor
- Name
BBC Store
- Web
- https://store.bbc.com/ External site opens in new window
- Notes
- NB. From May 2017 programmes are no longer available to buy on BBC Store. From November 1st 2017 the store will close completely and programmes bought from BBC Store will no longer be available to watch. Customers who have bought items from BBC Store will be contacted by email and refunded for their purchases either by full cash refund or Amazon video vouchers.
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