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For early high school, would you consider Moonlighting's condensed adaptation of Shrew to be a viable first exposure? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MoonlightingS3E...


jfengel might disagree, but if you absolutely must watch a Shrew variation made for TV at least give the BBC's Shakespeare ReTold version a gander:

https://booktalkandmore.blogspot.com/2011/03/shakespeare-ret...

  Everything comes together brilliantly in this adaptation, which remains remarkably - and surprisingly, perhaps - true to the source material, ...


I haven't seen this, but going by the linked summary, I'd say 'no'. I'm sure it's very clever, but pastiches depend upon familiarity with the source material to work. They also - this is why they're fun! - change the source in material ways, as it seems this does.

Students need to experience plays the way they're meant to be experienced: as plays. Live events, with human interaction at their heart. Anything else is... Missing the point.




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