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Many times. For example D.W. Griffith made a short silent version in 1908. It has been done for television many times and many live performances have been recorded. Two Hollywood versions and one made-for-TV version really stick out, though. One was made in 1929 with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. It was one of the earliest talkie movies and shows some signs of the silent treatment. Its treatment of the "taming" is that it is a game between Kate and Petruchio, and that once Kate figures out the rules, she outplays him. Knowing that she can still hold her own while playing this game helps her abandon her earlier antisocial behaviour.

The second movie was made in 1967 and stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and was directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Like most of Zeffirelli's films the setting and costumes are rich with colour and exuberant detail. This movie is at greater length than the 1929 one and comes to the conclusion that ultimately it is Kate's desire to be a "normal" wife and mother that "tames" her, not Petruchio's behaviour.

The TV movie was part of the BBC project to record all of Shakespeare's plays. Petruchio is played by John Cleese of Monty Python fame. In this version, Kate has got herself into an emotional and psychological dead end, resenting her sneaky sister and the fact that her father (and everyone else) seems to like Bianca better, and finding that her straightforward and somewhat violent responses only make matters worse. Petruchio's medicine may be somewhat strong, but Kate eventually realizes that he has a genuine affection for her and that she has other and more acceptable options for her social behaviour.

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