taming

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My admiration for her work comes down, perhaps unusually, to the Zeffirelli-Shakespeare “The Taming of the Shrew” and the Nichols-Albee “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” two films in which she starred with then-husband Richard Burton.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2024

In year six, the class was studying The Taming of Shrew, role playing and discussing why the characters might make those language choices.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2023

She attended Amity High School, where she won first place in a Shakespeare competition with a monologue from “The Taming of the Shrew,” not sure comedy was her winning strategy.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023

There’s Katharine Minola of “The Taming of the Shrew,” a sharp-tongued woman thought to have too much choler, the melancholic Ophelia of “Hamlet,” whose melancholia demonstrated an excess of black bile, and more.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

Taming the tunnel interference was a “long sought technical prize” for the researchers, and in 1951 it earned John Stack and his colleagues another coveted Collier Trophy.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly