 Shakespeare adopted the play-within-a-play device for many of his other plays as well, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Love's Labours Lost".Almost the whole of "The Taming of the Shrew" is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to the plot (unless Katharina's subservience to her "lord" in the last scene is intended to strengthen the deception against the tinker) and is often dropped in modern productions.The musical "Kiss Me, Kate" is about the production of a fictitious musical, "The Taming of the Shrew," based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, and features several scenes from it.