William Shakespeare, a literary genius, composed a famous piece of literature in the late 16th Century that has defied time and became a universal text, valued for more than four hundred years. This famous piece of literature is a play called The Taming of the Shrew . Owing to the plays universal themes and timeless elements, the text has been skillfully and cleverly appropriated to be valued in various periods of time. The film 10 Things I Hate About You, composed in 1999 by writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirstin Smith, is one such text that skillfully appropriated the eternal elements of The Taming of the Shrew, inevitably creating a masterpiece that is able to capture and entertain 21st Century audiences.

Although the directors of 10 Things have changed a significant amount of the Elizabethan play, the story is considerably the same and many parallels can be seen between the plots of...