Weekly Notes: October 27–November 2, 2025: A week in the life of…. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/11/02/weekly-notes-october-27-november-2-2025

#Affinity #AlienEarth #JurassicPark #JurassicWorldRebirth #TheTamingoftheShrew #WeeklyNotes #Personal #Photos #TVAndFilms

#TakingABreakFromFilming
#TheTamingOfTheShrew (1967)
Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.

#RichardBurton #ElizabethTaylor #FrancoZeffirelli (Director) on set.
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"Fie, fie! Unknit that threat’ning unkind brow, and dart not scornful glances from those eyes, to wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor." Every time I look at myself in that darned lying mirror.

#outofcontextshakespeare #TheTamingOfTheShrew #Katherine

#Camping (58) #DonGiovanni (58) #PerFirenze (66) #TheTamingOfTheShrew (67) #RomeoAndJuliet (68) #BrotherSunSisterMoon (72) #UnBalloInMaschera (78)
#TheChamp (79) #EndlessLove (81) #LaTraviata (82)
#Pagliacci (82) #Turandot (83) #Otello (86)
#YoungToscanini (88) #Hamlet (90) #JaneEyre (96)
#TeaWithMussolini (96) #OmaggioARoma (09)

#GoneButNotForgotten
#FrancoZeffirelli (1923-2019)
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#Macbeth (1908) #JuliusCaesar (1911)
#Macbeth (1911) #TheTamingOfTheShrew (1911)
#RichardIII (1911) #Becket (1923)

#GoneButNotForgotten
#FrankRBenson (1858-1939)
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Here's #MyShakespeareWinter part 11 of 37:

#TheTamingOfTheShrew has some wit at first, but quickly becomes crude unfunny & toxic, as venal Petruchio behaves like an abusive lout to "tame" his headstrong wife Katherina...her final speech praising obedience may be the Bard's worst