The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and the film Ten Things I Hate About YouHello/afternoon ladies and gentlemen My name is Gil Junger and I am here today to inform you about how I got appropriated the Shakespearean play "The Taming of the Shrew" into the modern day teen film "10 Things I Hate About You", while still being able to keep the key themes and values ​​evident throughout the film. The themes and values ​​present in The Taming of the Shrew for the appropriation to succeed had to be evident in 10 Things I Hate About You. These included romance and marriage, the importance of money, social order and status, patriarchal values ​​and finally transformation. To represent and appeal to today's society when much of the themes and values ​​remained the same, some of these ideas were necessary for me. to modify. I did this through the language and form of the piece and also using cinematic techniques. If I hadn't done this, the appropriation would have seemed unrealistic and the audience would be unable to identify with the film. To keep the appropriation true and meaningful, the basic plot and characters remained similar. For the characters, I chose to have the personality traits parallel to those of the characters in The Taming of the Shrew. For example, Kate and Kat were similar as both independent and intelligent individuals who follow their own morals and don't care what others think of them. . Bianca in both texts is seen as the “object of desire” because of her submissive attitude and beauty. I used similarities like these throughout “10 Things” making only minor changes. The idea of ​​marriage and romance was demonstrated in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew where the right of the father to marry his daughters to the male who demanded a "sufficient dowry" and affirmed the greatest masculinity. Once the father had made this choice, the daughters were obliged to obey. Romance was seen as a quest for love to win the girl. In 10 Things I Hate About You, I chose to treat the issue of The Taming of the Shrew in the same way, but with one significant difference. Marriage is the central point of the play “not giving away my youngest daughter until I have a husband for the eldest.” In my appropriation, I have not once mentioned marriage..