Written by | Cole Porter |
Date | 1948 |
Source | Kiss Me Kate (musical) |
Publisher | Chappell & Co. Inc. |
"Brush Up Your Shakespeare" is a pun-filled song that suggests quoting William Shakespeare as a means of wooing and wowing women. The song references the titles of fourteen of Shakespeare's plays, and was originally written for Kiss Me, Kate, a backstage musical variation of The Taming of the Shrew, which focused on putting together a production of the play.
Christopher Reeve, Fozzie Bear, Link Hogthrob, and a skull named Yorick sing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" as part of a Hamlet sketch on episode 418 of The Muppet Show.