Friday, March 25, 2011

In Memory of Elizabeth Taylor, and her Shakespeare Connection

As I'm sure you've all heard by now, the legendary Elizabeth Taylor died this week at 79 years.  One of the very first Shakespeare films I saw and fell in love with was the 1967 version of Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor playing Katherine opposite Richard Burton's Petruchio.  It was so well done, and I think they both played their parts so well.

I wanted to embed a short clip from that film, Kate's speech at the end, but embedding of that clip is disabled on YouTube, probably due to rights or something.  So, follow this link to go watch it over on YouTube.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQudMqwqpQ