![]() ![]() Obviously, she has intelligence they don’t understand, as blunt and logical scientific thought comes up against other ways of thinking. Kate’s younger sister Bunny was the character I found most engaging: warning her sister off the scheme, rebelling against her dad, and constantly referred to as stupid by the other characters. Her eventual husband Pyotr was ambivalently dealt with, a guy trying to get on in a foreign country but also prone to fits of anger. Her sense of wasting her life thus far was apparent, but her textbook vague crush on the one guy in her workplace was pointless. It moves The Taming of the Shrew to America, makes Kate’s father a scientist trying to arrange a marriage in order to keep his beloved research assistant in the country.Īlthough relevant to the source material, I didn’t feel Kate had enough character. Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl is another book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, which I am broadly for (loved The Gap of Time, medium on Shylock Is My Name because I didn’t get along with the writing style). ![]() For anyone, myself included, who grew up with that film, with its lightly sprinkled references and liberally changed plot, it is perhaps difficult to read another version without comparing. The problem with writing a modern American-set version of The Taming of the Shrew is that 10 Things I Hate About You exists. Tagged books, hag-seed, Hogarth Shakespeare, new boy, recommendations, shakespeare, shylock is my name, the gap of time, vinegar girl Vinegar Girl, Vinegar Taste The strange timeline and irrational jealousies of Othello find themselves a good home in this novel, where intensity is heightened because this schoolyard is the world for most of these students. Othello is retold in a tense and claustrophobic day in a 1970s Washington schoolyard, as new boy Osei finds himself out of place in the entirely white school.
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