|
Diana Rigg is a British actress. She was born in 1938 at Yorkshire. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at Stratford- on-Avon in 1959 and made her mark shortly thereafter in productions of The Taming Of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and King Lear. Following a year-long stint as Emma Peel in the television series 'The Avengers', she joined the National Theatre, where she played Dottie in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, Celimene in The Misanthrope, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and Phaedra in Phaedra Britannica. She also starred in Tom Stoppard's 'Night and Day', Antony and Cleopatra, Stephen Sondheim's Follies, and won a Tony Award in 1994 for her Broadway performance in the title role of Medea.
 Research Diana Rigg
Baptista is a rich gentleman of Padua in The Taming of The Shrew.
Research Baptista
Biondello is a servant to Lucentio in The Taming of The Shrew.
Research Biondello
Christopher Sly is a drunken tinker in the induction of The Taming of The Shrew.
Research Christopher Sly
Lucentio is the son of Vincentio in The Taming of The Shrew.
Research Lucentio
Petruchio is a gentleman of Verona in The Taming of The Shrew.
Research Petruchio
The Taming of The Shrew is a play by Shakespeare. The comedy deals with a drunken tinker, Christopher Sly, who is put to bed and treated, on waking, as a man of quality newly cured of madness. Before him is presented the play which concerns the wooing of Katharina,the shrew, by Petruchio, and that of her sister Bianca by Lucentio. It is set sometimes in Padua and sometimes in Petruchio's house in the country. It opens before an ale-house on a heath whereupon enter the hostess and Christopher Sly.
Research The Taming of The Shrew
Tranio is a servant to Lucentio in The Taming of The Shrew.
Research Tranio
Vincentio is the Duke in Measure for Measure.
Vincentio is an old gentelman of Pisa in The Taming of The Shrew.
Research Vincentio
10 Things I Hate About You is a romantic comedy starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik in a story based on Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew about a girl banned from going on a date until her shrewish elder sister obtains a boyfriend. 10 Things I Hate About You was directed by Gil Junger in 1999.
Research 10 Things I Hate About You
|
The Probert Encyclopaedia was designed, edited and programed by
Matt and Leela Probert
©1993 - 2009 The Probert Encyclopaedia
Southampton, United Kingdom
|
|
|
Abbreviations
