ABSTRACT

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

part I|37 pages

Introduction

part II|303 pages

Love's Labour's Lost And The Critics

chapter |4 pages

Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear

The Argument of Loves Labour's Lost

chapter |4 pages

Notes on Shakespeare's Plays

Love's Labour's Lost (Excerpts)

chapter |2 pages

Love's Labour Lost from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Criticisms on Shakespeare's Comedies

chapter |5 pages

On Love's Labours Lost

chapter |6 pages

Shakespeare's Word-Play And Puns

Love's Labour's Lost

chapter |2 pages

A Shakespearean Quibble

chapter |7 pages

Love's Labour's Lost

One of Shakespeare's First Bows

chapter |20 pages

Love's Labour's Lost

chapter |17 pages

Love's Labour's Lost

The Story of a Conversion

chapter |11 pages

The Dialogues of Spring and Winter

A Key to the Unity of Love's Labour's Lost *

chapter |17 pages

Love's Labour's Lost

The Grace of Society

chapter |19 pages

Oath-Taking

chapter |4 pages

M. Marcadé and the Dance of Death

Love's Labour's Lost v.2.705–711

chapter |8 pages

Jaquenetta's Baby's Father

Recovering Paternity in Love's Labour's Lost

chapter |11 pages

Armado and Costard in the French Academy

Player as Clown

chapter |17 pages

Elizabethan Views of the “Other”

French, Spanish, and Russians in Love's Labour's Lost

part III|132 pages

Love's Labour's Lost on Stage

chapter |4 pages

Imitations

The Students, 1762

chapter |2 pages

Review of Peines D'Amour Perdues at the Odéon

From Le Monde

chapter |2 pages

Review of Peines D'Amour Perdues at the Odéon

From La Vie Intellectuelle

chapter |2 pages

From the Shifting Point

chapter |23 pages

Rehearsal Process as Critical Practice

John Barton's 1978 Love's Labour's Lost

chapter |4 pages

From a Theatregoer's Notebook

The RSC'S Love's Labour's Lost

chapter |2 pages

Moshinsky's Love's Labor's Lost

chapter |2 pages

Another Winner, a Feast Worthy of the Bard Himself

Review of Love's Labour's Lost, Performed by the Great Lakes Theater Festival at the Ohio Theatre on Playhouse Square

chapter |2 pages

Director Leaves Mark on Love's Labour's Lost

Review of Love's Labour's Lost, Performed by the Great Lakes Theater Festival at the Ohio Theatre on Playhouse Square

chapter |2 pages

Youthful Touch of Tenderness

Review of Love's Labor's Lost at the Public Theater

chapter |4 pages

Love's Labor's Lost

chapter |2 pages

Continuous Sonnets

chapter |4 pages

Love's Labor's Lost

chapter |7 pages

Shakespeare, Half of Creation

Reminiscences of Don Armado *

chapter |9 pages

On Playing Berowne *

chapter |4 pages

Envoi *