Ukroshchenie Stroptivoy (1961) - film adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Ronan Paterson (University of Teesside)

Ed. by Ema Vyroubalova, Trinity College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Domains

Cinema/ Film/ TV

Dates

Date of occurrence 1961

Places

Russia (Location)
England (Involved)

Genres and Modes

Adaptation

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Adapted from William Shakespeare’s

The Taming of the Shrew.

Adapted and directed by Sergei Kolosov. Cast includes Andrei Popov, Lyudmilla Kasatinka, Vladimir Zeldin, and Olga Krasina. Russian. Black and white. 85 minutes.

In 1961 Sergei Kolosov directed Ukroshchenie Stroptivoy for the Mosfilm studios. Shot in black and white, it is the first feature film based upon the play since Samuel Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew (1929) with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Like Taylor, and indeed as Franco Zeffirelli later would in his 1967 version, Kolosov does away with the Induction involving Christopher Sly. Instead it begins with Kosolov’s mentor, theatre director Alexei Popov, upon whose iconic 1939 theatre production the film is based, sitting round a table with the cast giving the

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Citation: Paterson, Ronan. "Ukroshchenie Stroptivoy (1961) - film adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 November 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19429, accessed 25 November 2024.]