“Kiss me, Kate,” Julia tells Streep, leaning in, and she spits in his face. Their scenes together are the Shakespearean equivalent of Tyson versus Holyfield-they tear into each other, pulling, scratching, speechifying. By the end, though, you’ll be thinking at least as much about Raul Julia, the Puerto Rican dynamo who played Petruchio, her tamer. You’ll sit at a monitor and watch one of the great stage performances by Meryl Streep, as Katherine the shrew, in an unruly strawberry-red wig. Ask for “The Taming of the Shrew,” from the summer of 1978, at the Delacorte. You’ll need an appointment at the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive. If you have a free afternoon in New York City, go to the Library for the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center, and take the elevator up to the third floor.
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