Show Plot Kiss Me, Kate

Authors: Book by Bella and Samuel Spewack, music and lyrics by Cole Porter

Time Period:

• Real-world setting period: June 1948 (set in the late 1940s)
• Play-within-a-play period: The Italian Renaissance

• Backstage: A theater (traditionally Ford's Theatre) in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Onstage (The Play within the Play): Padua, Italy

Summary: Kiss Me, Kate follows a divorced theatre couple feuding onstage and off while trying to produce a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.