The swaggering Petruchio, eager to wive it wealthily in Padua, agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
October 23, 1980
2h 6m
EN
Jonathan Miller
Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate, so all the suitors begin busily hunting out a madman who's willing to do it, and they find Petruchio: a man who's come to wive it wealthily in Padua. And Petruchio marries Kate with a plan to tame her, while everybody else begins scheming to win Bianca's hand.
Simon Chandler
Lucentio
Anthony Pedley
Tranio
John Franklyn-Robbins
Baptista
Frank Thornton
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7
Gremio
Sarah Badel
Katherine
Jonathan Cecil
Hortensio
John Cleese
Petruchio
Joan Hickson
Widow
Susan Penhaligon
Bianca
Harry Waters
Biondello
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