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Reviewed on October 1, 2016 | Audio
The third installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series transfers the 16th-century comedy The Taming of the Shew, set in Padua, Italy, to Tyler's familiar territory, a contemporary Baltimore neighborhood. The Bard's obdurate, would-be lovers Katherina and Petruchio become Kate Battista, a temperamental, small children-averse preschool assistant on probation, and Pyotr Shcherbakov, the much-favored brilliant lab assistant of Kate's autoimmune disorder-fighting scientist father. As independent as Kate believes herself to be, she fe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More