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Laurence Olivier in The Taming of the Shrew

Colleen Dewhurst as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, 1956

Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina, holding a book and looking at Richard Burton as Petruchio, who leans toward her, in a scene from the 1967 film The Taming of the Shrew.

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Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

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