Love's Labour's Lost, pt. 1

[kellyrfineman]

Today we're moving on to another of Shakespeare's comedies. It's an early one, that was performed for Queen Elizabeth I at Christmas time, most likely in the year 1597, although it's possible that it was performed even earlier than that. The cleverness and wordplay of this one presage what is to come in plays such as Much Ado About Nothing, and I

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[boreal_owl]

I like Armado's speech, especially this:

Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise wit, write pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.

...and I'm delighted to know from whence cometh my icon. :-)

[kellyrfineman]

I really love that part as well. Initially I was going to excerpt that line alone, but after further consideration, I provided the whole thing. Obviously.

[kellyrfineman]

Um, yeah - I suppose it was easier to enforce the rules for themselves if nobody else was getting lucky either.

*will have to ponder whether or not this is a mirror image of Taming of the Shrew*

[robinellen]

LOL -- nice overview ;) It's enough to make me realize that although this play was on our college syllabus, apparently, I never read it! Oops. Of course, I read a couple of them while listening to my Music History homework in the music library, so it's completely possible that this was one of those and if someone were to play the right Beethoven symphony, it would all come back to me...

[kellyrfineman]

This one actually pairs well with Mozart. But I digress. According to the No Fear Shakespeare folks, this is #29 of 38. Not certain how on earth they arrived at their rankings, but it is pretty far down on most people's lists, so it's impressive it was on your syllabus.