The Portrayal of Women in Shakespeare Adaptations Over Time
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2020-08-24
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This thesis looks at two adaptations of Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew (1590-1592): You Made Me Love You (1933) and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). The focus of the analysis of these films lies on the main female characters; Pamela in the 1933 adaptation, and Kat in the 1999 adaptation. This thesis analyses these characters by primarily exploring the concepts of gender stereotypes, social roles, the feminist waves and patriarchy. The aim of this research is to see whether or not there is a difference in the representation of women in the older adaptation from 1933 and the more recent one from 1999, in order to find out if there is a development in the portrayal of women over time. The results confirm that there is indeed a change in social roles and gender stereotypes in films over time. But even if the portrayal of women changes, patriarchy keeps having the same amount and type of influence on women in films during the time period of the twentieth century.
Keywords: Shakespeare adaptation, social roles, gender stereotypes, feminist waves, patriarchy, You Made Me Love You, Monty Banks, 10 Things I Hate About You, Gil Junger
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