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Taming of the Shrew, The

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Taming of the Shrew, The
Lucentio wins Bianca despite the machinations of his rivals and the objections of her father. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew]

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The season opened with The Taming of the Shrew, the full-length ballet John Cranko adapted from Shakespeare's tale of a lady with a bad temper.
Molly Smiths Breaking Boundaries is often surprising and engaging in choosing, inter alia, less prominent but nonetheless powerful theatrical texts for discussion: Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus; John Fletcher's sequel to The Taming of the Shrew, The Woman's Prize; Ben Jonson's Sejanus; and finally and most strikingly, Charles I's execution in 1649.
Choreographers use stories that are familiar to audiences to create new works all the time," he added, pointing to John Cranko's The Taming of the Shrew, the various Dracula ballets and Lar Lubovitch's recent Othello.
 
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