 One of the taglines for this movie is "How do I loathe thee? Let me  count the ways" which is an obvious play on "How do I love thee? Let  me count the ways." Although this movie contains multiple references  to William Shakespeare (I) (qv) and "The Taming of the Shrew", the  line "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" was written not by  Shakespeare, but by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (qv). It is the  first line of Sonnet 43 from Barrett Brownings "Sonnets from the  Portuguese"