Word: paduan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...score blends several styles to harmonize with a play-within-a-play about a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He has ranged from comic ditties and Broadway torch ballads to songs in the rich, tuneful manner of Italian light opera, to match the Paduan setting of The Shrew. Several take their titles, and the flavor of their lyrical development, from the play's Elizabethan verse. The New York Times's Brooks Atkinson solemnly declared that I Hate Men is "the perfect musical sublimation of Shakespeare's evil-tempered Kate...