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...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli has breathed new life into Shakespeare's bawdy comedy with a brash and breezy style and lusty performances from Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette...
Shakespeare cared too much for his satellite roles to give the entire show to the stars, and it is as much the supporting players as the Burtons who give the Shrew vitality. Victor Spinetti, Cyril Cusak and Michael Hordern are a brilliant bunch of second bananas. Natasha Pyne, as Kate's sister Bianca, plays with a wide-eyed vanilla-pudding approach that deliberately lends Kate more flavor...
This is not Zeffirelli's first brush with the bard. He once overdirected an eccentric Italian version of Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" In Shrew, he displays a sure sense of what makes comedy funny. When a classic is treated as deathless, it dies; by being brash and breezy, Zeffirelli has breathed new life into an old text...