 Title page of the first quarto (1598) Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies. The cast of Kenneth Branaghs 2000 film version of Loves Labours Lost. ...
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Date and text Most modern scholars believe the play was written in 1595 or 1596, making it contemporaneous with Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[1] Love's Labour's Lost was first published in quarto in 1598 by the bookseller Cuthbert Burby. The title page states that the play was "Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere," which has suggested to some scholars a revision of an earlier version. The play next appeared in print in the First Folio in 1623, with a later quarto in 1631. Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. ...
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Cuthbert Burby (died 1607) was a London bookseller and publisher of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. ...
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Sources "Love's Labour's Lost" is, along with "The Tempest", a play without any obvious sources. "Cymbeline" falls into this category to some extent, although that play draws strands of its narrative from some texts agreed on by modern scholars. "Love's Labour's Lost", widely thought of as the first work of Shakespeare's genius, was a new departure from his established modes of writing. Some possible influences can be found in the early plays of John Lyly, Robert Wilson's "The Cobbler's Prophecy" (c.1590) and Pierre de la Primaudaye's "Le Academie francaise" (1577).
Performance The earliest recorded performance of the play occurred at Christmas time in 1597 at Court before Queen Elizabeth. A second recorded performance occurred in the first half of January 1605, either at the house of the Earl of Southampton or at that of Robert Cecil, Lord Cranborne. This article is about Elizabeth I of England. ...
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1603, in the Tower, atrributed to John de Critz. ...
The first known production after Shakespeare's era was not until a Covent Garden version in 1839, with Elizabeth Vestris as Rosaline.[2] The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House is a performing arts venue in London. ...
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (January, 1797 - August 8, 1856) was an English actress. ...
Synopsis The play opens with the King of Navarre and three noble companions, Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville, taking an oath to devote themselves to three years of study, promising not to give in to the company of women. Berowne reminds the king that the princess and her three ladies are coming to the kingdom and it was suicidal for the King to agree to this law. The King denies what Berowne says insisting that they live a little far from the palace. The King and his men comically fall in love with the princess and her ladies. “Navarra†redirects here. ...
The main story is assisted by many other funny sub-plots. A rather heavy-accented Spanish swordsman, Don Adriano de Armado, tries and fails to woo a country wench, Jaquenetta, helped by Moth, his page, and Costard, a country idiot. We are also introduced to two scholars: Holofernes and Sir Nathaniel, we have seen them converse with each other in schoolboy Latin. In the final act, the comic characters perform a play to entertain the nobles. It looks like the end. ...
At the end of this 'play' in the play, after this there is a bitter twist in the story. News arrives that the Princess's father has died and she must leave to take the throne. The king and his nobles swear to remain faithful to their ladies, but the ladies, unconvinced that their love is that strong, claim that the men must wait a whole year and a day to prove what they say is true. This is an unusual ending for Shakespeare and Elizabethan comedy. A play mentioned by Francis Meres, Love's Labour's Won, is sometimes supposed to be a sequel to this play.[3] Francis Meres (1565 - January 29, 1647), was an English churchman and author. ...
Reputation Love's Labours is often thought of as Shakespeare's most flamboyantly intellectual play. It abounds in sophisticated wordplay, puns, and literary allusions and is filled with clever pastiches of contemporary poetic forms. It is often assumed that it was written for performance at the Inns of Court, whose students would have been most likely to appreciate its style. This style is the principal reason why it has never been among Shakespeare's most popular plays; the pedantic humour makes it extremely inaccessible to contemporary theatregoers. Combined arms of the four Inns of Court The Inns of Court, in London, are the professional associations to one of which every English barrister (and those judges who were formerly barristers) must belong. ...
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Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director. ...
Adaptations and cultural references
Fiction Thomas Mann in his novel Doctor Faustus 1943 has the fictional German composer Adrian Leverkühn write an opera on Love's Labour's Lost. For other persons named Thomas Mann, see Thomas Mann (disambiguation). ...
Doctor Faustus could refer to: The character of Faust Christopher Marlowes The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus Ferruccio Busonis opera Doktor Faust A 1967 film directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill, see Doctor Faustus (movie) This is a disambiguation page — a...
Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Film Kenneth Branagh's 2000 film relocated the setting to the 1930s and attempted to make the play more accessible by turning it into a musical. However, the film was a box office failure. Main article: Love's Labour's Lost (2000 film) Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director. ...
Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known as the World Depression. ...
The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ...
The cast of Kenneth Branaghs 2000 film version of Loves Labours Lost. ...
See also Honorificabilitudinitatibus is a word appearing in act five, scene one of William Shakespeares Loves Labours Lost. ...
Note - ^ Woudhuysen, H. R., ed. Love's Labour's Lost (London: Arden Shakespeare, 1998): 59.
- ^ F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564-1964, Baltimore, Penguin, 1964; pp. 288-89.
- ^ Knutson, Roslynn, The Repertory of Shakespeare's Company, 1594-1613 (Fayatteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991): 75.
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