Love's Labour's Lost - Critical Essays

The first part of this anthology, examines the play from a variety of perspectives: historical context, dating and sources, character analysis, comic elements, verbal conceits, evidence of authorship, and feminist interpretations. Two essays are translated here for the first time from French and Japanese and one was commissioned especially for this volume.
The second part, on performance analysis and theater reviews, presents critical reviews that are balanced by essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. The section includes two new translations and four newly commissioned pieces. One of these, by the great Hungarian actor Peter Huszti, discusses his interpretation of Don Armado. Gerald Freedman, who has directed five productions of the play, including the one in the New York Public Theater's Shakespeare marathon, writes from the directorial perspective; that production's designer, John Ezell, also contributes an essay. The volume is illustrated with production photographs and is indexed by name, literary work, and concept.

List of contents

General Editor's Introduction * Acknowledgments * Illustrations * Introduction * Love's Labour's Lost and the Critical Legacy, Felicia Hardison Londre * Love'sLabour's Lost and The Critics * From Alba, or the Month'sMinde of a Melancholy Lover (1598), Robert Tofte * To the Right Honorable the Lorde Vycount Cranborne at the Courte (1604), Sir Walter Cope; Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear: The Argument of Love's Labour's Lost (1710),Charles Gildon * Notes on Shakespeare's Plays: Love'sLabour's Lost (excerpts) (1765), Samuel Johnson * Love'sLabour Lost, from Lectures on Dramatic Art andLiterature: Criticisms on Shakespeare's Comedies (1808), August Wilhelm von Schlegel * Love's Labour's Lost, from the Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (1811), SamuelTaylor Coleridge [reported by J. Tomalin] * Love'sLabour's Lost, from Lectures and Notes on Shakspere andOther English Poets (1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Love's Labour's Lost, from Characters of Shakespeare'sPlays (1817), William Hazlitt * On Love's Labour's Lost(1878), Walter Pater; Shakespeare's Word-Play and Puns: Love's Labour's Lost (1889), Thomas R. Price * A Shakespearean Quibble (1898), James W. Bright * Love'sLabour's Lost, from Shakespeare: His Music and Song(1915), A.H. Moncure-Sime * Love's Labour's LostRestudied (1925), Oscar J. Campbell; Love's Labour'sLost: One of Shakespeare's First Bows (1942), JacquesCopeau, translated from the French by Mari Pappas * Love's Labour's Lost (1953), Bobbyann Roesen (AnneBarton) * The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love'sLabour's Lost (1959), C.L. Barber * Love's Labour's Lost: The Story of a Conversion (1962), John Dover Wilson, C.H. * Love's Labour's Lost and the Early Shakespeare (1962), Alfred Harbage * The Dialogues of Spring and Winter: A Key to the Unity of Love's Labour's Lost (1967),Catherine M. McLay * Love's Labour's Lost The Grace of Society (1971), Thomas M. Greene * The Failure of Relationship Between Men and Women in Love's Labour'sLost (1981), Peter B. Erickson * Oath-Taking (1981), Irene G. Dash * The Copy for the Folio Text of Love'sLabour's Lost (1982), Stanley Wells * The Structure of Love's Labour's Lost (1982), Koshi Nakanori, translatedfrom the Japanese by Toru Iwasaki * M. Marcad and the Dance of Death: Love's Labour's Lost v. 2.705-711 (1986),Ren Graziani * Jaquenetta's Baby's Father: Recovering Paternity in Love's Labour's Lost (1990), Dorothea Kehler * Armado and Costard in the French Academy: Player as Clown (1993), Meredith Anne Skura, * Elizabethan Views of the "Other": French, Spanish, and Russians in Love'sLabour's Lost (1995), Felicia Hardison Londre * Love'sLabour's Lost on Stage * Review of the Dramatic Students at St. James's Theatre (1886), Bernard Shaw * Review of Love's Labor's Lost at Daly's Theatre (1891), New YorkTimes; Imitations: The Students, 1762 (1904), HoraceHoward Furness * Review of Peines d'amour perdues at the Od on: From Le Monde (1946), Robert Kemp * Review of Peines d'amour perdues at the Od on: From La Vie intellectuelle (1946), Henri Gouhier * From The ShiftingPoint (1987), Peter Brooke * Armado's "You that way; we this way" (1969-70), James Hisao Kodama * Love's LaborReviewed as Mozart-Like (1974), John H. Harvey * Review of Love's Labour's Lost at the Guthrie Theater (1974), Mike Steele * Review of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1978), Michael Billington * Rehearsal Process as Critical Practice: John Barton's 1978 Love's Labour'sLost (1988), Barbara Hodgdon * From a Theatregoer's Notebook: The RSC Love's Labour's Lost (1985), FeliciaHardison Londre * Moshinsky's Love's Labour's Lost(1985), Mary Z. Maher * Another winner, a feast worthy of the Bard himself: Review of Love's Labour's Lost, Performed by the Great Lakes Theater Festival (1988), Marianne Evett * Director Leaves Mark on Love's Labour'sLost: Review of Love's Labour's Lost, performed by the Great Lakes Theater Festival (1988), Tony Mastroaianni * Youthful Touch of Tenderness: Review of Love's Labor'sLost, at the Public Theater (1989), Clive Barnes * On Directing Love's Labour's Lost-Five Times, GeraldFreedman * On Designing Love's Labour's Lost-Twice, JohnEzell; Love's Labor's Lost (1992), Randall Louis Anderson * Continuous Sonnets (1993), Amy Reiter * Love's Labour'sLost (1993), Margaret Loftus Ranald * Shakespeare, Half of Creation: Reminiscences of Don Armado, Peter Huszti * The "Otherness" of the Foreigner in Contemporary Productions of Love's Labour's Lost, Daniel J. Watermeier * On Playing Berowne, Theodore Swetz * Envoi, MeliaBensussen * Contributors of New Material to This Volume

About the author

Felicia Hardison Londre is Curators' professor of Theater at the University of Missouri--Kansas City and dramaturg for Missouri Repertory Theater, Hart of America, Shakespeare Festival, and Nebraska Shakepseare Festival. She is currently President of the American Theater and Drama Society.

Summary

This anthology discusses Love's Labour's Lost in terms of historical context, dating and sources, character analysis; comic elements, verbal conceits, evidence of authorship and feminist interpretations.

Product details

• Authors: Felicia Hardison Londre
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1997
• EAN: 9780815309840
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-0984-0
• No. of pages: 494
• Weight: 725 g
• Series: Shakespeare Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean