Comments | nwhyte: October Books 5) Love's Labour's Lost

nwhyte

October Books 5) Love's Labour's Lost

Oct 07, 2008 19:14

5) Love's Labour's Lost, by William Shakespeare

( funny peculiar rather than funny ha-ha )

writer: shakespeare, bookblog 2008

Comments 6

iainjcoleman October 7 2008, 20:06:05 UTC

Christ, I'm struggling through this one myself at the moment. I'm about half way through the Complete Works, and this is the first one I've had trouble finishing. You're right about 4.3 - that's the one bit where I thought "hey ho, this is starting too get entertaining". It didn't last. I will get to the end of Act 5, I will!

Kenneth Branagh adaptation anonymous October 7 2008, 20:34:31 UTC

This musical adaptation with Cole Porter songs is rather entertraining... maybe you should check it out

Tom (Veronikas Brother)

Re: Kenneth Branagh adaptation nwhyte October 7 2008, 20:50:51 UTC

Cheers - although I'm generally a Branagh fan, I have to say I was rather put off by the WikiPedia entry calling it "a box-office and critical disappointment"!

(Glad to hear from you - I guessed my Slovakia-based reader was probably you!)

Re: Kenneth Branagh adaptation andrewducker October 8 2008, 08:04:47 UTC

I liked it a lot. It's silly fluff, but that's pretty much what I was expecting.

Re: Kenneth Branagh adaptation redfiona99 October 8 2008, 14:56:41 UTC

When it comes to critics and Branagh I take their words with a pinch of salt, I have no idea what he did to him, but they seem to have an absolute bias against him.

sashajwolf October 8 2008, 12:33:43 UTC

djm4 has just seen this at the RSC (with David Tennant among the cast). He isn't on LJ much these days, but I'll try to remember to ask him if he feels like commenting here. I know he enjoyed the production.