->''Brush up your [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]], start quoting him now.''

A 1948 [[TheMusical musical]] by ColePorter. ''Kiss Me Kate'' was an answer to ''{{Oklahoma}}'' in that the music advanced the plot. It also won the first Tony Award for Best Musical (along with four other Tonys). A film version was released in 1953.





!!Includes examples of:
* ThreeDMovie: The film version, although it's now extremely difficult to see it in the original format.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: Slightly under half the show is a musical adaptation of ''The Taming of the Shrew''.
* {{Antihero}}: Fred.
* TheBardOnBoard
* BelligerentSexualTension: Fred and Lilli.
--> '''Lilli''': Whose fault was it?
--> '''Fred''': Could have been your temper.
--> '''Lilli''': Could have been your ego.
* BetaCouple: Bill and Lois.
* {{Bowdlerisation}}: In the musical number "Too Darn Hot", the line "according to the Kinsey Report" was changed to "according to the latest report" in the film version. The word "bastard" was replaced in the film with [[GoshDarnItToHeck "you louse"]]. Many of the lyrics of "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" were changed.
* BrainlessBeauty: Lois
* BreakawayPopHit: CutSong "From This Moment On" to a limited extent.
* ComedyOfRemarriage: Implied at the end.
* CrowdSong: "Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Bianca", "Kiss Me Kate".
* CutSong: "From This Moment On", though it was later reinstated.
** Strangely, this is a cut number from a different Cole Porter musical, ''Out of This World'', which made its way into the film version of ''Kiss Me, Kate'' and then, in a different context, revivals of the stage version.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: The Two Men. (It's implied that they did a lot of reading in prison.)
* DoubleEntendre: It's a show by Cole Porter -- would you expect anything else?
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: The Two Men.
* TheGambler: Bill.
* GodwinsLaw: The dialog between Fred and Lilli
--->'''Lilli''': "I'm marrying an important man! Do the words "World War 2" mean anything to you?"
--->'''Fred''': "[[DeadpanSnarker You're marrying]] ''[[DeadpanSnarker Adolf Hitler?]]''"
* IAmSong: "Always True to You".
* TheIngenue: Subverted with Lois. She plays one on stage as Bianca but is far less virginal off stage.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Too Darn Hot".
* IrrelevantActOpener: "Too Darn Hot".
* IWantSong: "Why Can't You Behave".
* LargeHam: The Two Men, with Fred and General Howell trying to out-ham them.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle
* LoveableRogue: Bill
* NamesTheSame: Lois Lane.
* NoNameGiven: The Two Men, called 'Man 1' and 'Man 2' in the script.]
* ThePlan: Fred attempt this to keep Lilli in the show, it works for a while, but not long enough.
* PrecisionFStrike: "You ''BASTARD!''"
* ProsceniumReveal: Just before the overture reaches its final chords, the conductor cuts it off and asks, "Is that all right, Mr. Graham?" Fred enters and says, "Yes, the cut's good, leave it in."
* [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock Villains]]: The Two Men
* PushedInFrontOfTheAudience: The Two Men.
* ReallyGetsAround: Lois sings a whole song about it
* RunningGag: Lilli is unable to sit down after Fred's spanking.
* SlapSlapKiss: Fred and Lily
* ShowWithinAShow[=/=]TheMusicalMusical: The musical version of ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', which itself is a ShowWithinAShow, based on the opening number of their musical, ''We Open In Venice''.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Fred and Lily do quite a bit of this.
* StylisticSuck: "Bianca" which is supposed to be a bad poem that Bill wrote for Lois.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: "Wunderbar".
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Two Men (Slug and Lippy).
* {{Tsundere}}: Lily oh so much.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Lilli and Lois. Subverted in that Lilli is a Tomboy with attitude but is also very feminine and a soprano.
* WorldOfHam: In and Out of Universe.