Search results
Clip from the University of Minnesota Theatre's production of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost." Directed by Kenneth Noel Mitchell and presented by the U ...
Love's Labour's Lost is one of Shakespeare's funniest and most popular comedies, full of witty wordplay, physical comedy, and romance, and featuring a plotli...
Love's Labour's Lost Summary. After vowing to avoid women, the King and three of his friends have to host a princess and her three ladies. The four men fall in love and decide to court the women. In the end, the women must return to their kingdom for a year after which they will marry the king and his friends, providing they remain true to them ...
Taking an oath to isolate themselves from the trivial distractions of women and love, four men think a spell of celibacy, study and self-improvement is the key to maxing out their potential. But when a Princess and her three companions arrive on a diplomatic mission, the allure of abstinence begins to evaporate. Something’s got to give….
Subscribe Now. Shakespeare’s sharp comedy, Love’s Labour’s Lost, gets brought to life at London’s iconic Globe Theater. When the King of Navarre and his three courtiers forswear all pleasure - particularly of the female variety - in favor of a life of study, the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies plays havoc with their ...
The play draws on themes of masculine love and desire, reckoning and rationalisation, and reality versus fantasy. Though first published in quarto in 1598, the play's title page suggests a revision of an earlier version of the play. There are no obvious sources for the play's plot. The use of apostrophes in the play's title varies in early ...
Love’s Labor’s Lost begins with the young King of Navarre anticipating the “disgrace of death,” when he and his courtiers will succumb to “cormorant devouring time” and become “heirs of all eternity” (1.1.3–7); the play ends with the stunningly dramatic entrance of Marcade, whose brief “tale” () announces the death of the old King of France, and with the futile efforts of ...
