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Marie Thérèse Kemble as Catharine in David Garrick's Catherine and Petruchio.
A portrait of Henry Woodward (1714–1777) portraying Petruchio (by Benjamin van der Gucht

Catharine and Petruchio is a reworking of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by British playwright and actor David Garrick. It was written in 1754 and was performed far more often than the original The Shrew through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Catharine and Petruchio

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Catharine and Petruchio is a reworking of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by British playwright and actor David Garrick. It was written...

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The Taming of the Shrew in performance

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However, it was only in the 1890s that the dominance of Catharine and Petruchio began to wane, and productions of The Shrew become more regular. Moving into...

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The Taming of the Shrew on screen

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"talkie" and a silent. Using only 500 lines from the original play, and a few lines from David Garrick's 1754 adaptation of Shrew, Catharine and Petruchio, the...

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1754 in literature

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Faerie Queene of Spenser Samuel Crisp – Virginia David Garrick – Catharine and Petruchio (adapted from The Taming of the Shrew) John Gay – The Rehearsal...

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Maria Theresa Kemble

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the Younger), and in the same year she played Portia and Desdemona, followed at Drury Lane by Katherine in Katherine and Petruchio, and Hippolito in Kemble's...

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Benjamin Vandergucht

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and painter. He was the thirty-second child of Gerard Vandergucht the engraver, and one of twins. He studied drawing in St Martin's Lane Academy, and...

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Crow Street Theatre

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was a patent theatre. The actor Spranger Barry (1719–1777), born in Dublin and appearing in London from 1746, induced the London-born actor Henry Woodward...

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Colm Feore

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Richard III (1988), King Richard III The Taming of the Shrew (1988), Petruchio The Three Musketeers (1988), Athos Julius Caesar (1990), Cassius The Merry...

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John Wilkes Booth

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experienced stage fright and stumbled over one of his lines. Instead of introducing himself by saying, "Madame, I am Petruchio Pandolfo", he stammered...

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Kitty Clive

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Clive’s new parts, in for instance Catherine and Petruchio (1754), High Life Below Stairs (1759) and The Clandestine Marriage (1766), also dramatized...

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Graham Abbey

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(2003) -- Petruchio Richard III, Reign of Terror (2002) -- King Henry VII, Earl of Richmond The Scarlet Pimpernel (2002) -- Lambert Romeo and Juliet (2002)...

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