The Taming of the shrew

United Kingdom, 1980

Film
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Episode of Series “BBC Television Shakespeare Series”.
Featuring John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherina. The action of “The Taming of the Shrew” is set in the social context of Elizabethan mercantile upper-middle class, and like nearly all of Shakespeare’s comedies, is a family play dealing with the domestic processes of courtship and marriage.

Credits

director

Jonathan Miller

production company

BBC-TV

Language

English

Duration

02:08:00:00

Colour

Colour

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