Trivia: Which Shakespeare play is “10 Things I Hate About You” based on?
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Hamlet
The Taming of the Shrew
The correct answer is The Taming of the Shrew
So why is this answer correct? : This 1999 film was adapted from Shakespeare’s comedy “The Taming of the Shrew.” Filmmakers even kept the names of the main characters, Katherine and Bianca, the same as in the Shakespeare play. Just as Bianca can’t marry until Katherine does in “The Taming of the Shrew,” Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) isn’t permitted to date until her older sister, Kat (Julia Stiles), does. In the play, Katherine is “tamed” by her husband Petruchio, but in the film, Patrick (Heath Ledger) sets out to woo Kat.