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Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies; it is believed to have been written around 1595-1596 and is probably contemporaneous with Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time May 24 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. ...
Events February 5 - 26 catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan. ...
Romeo and Juliet is a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young lovers. ...
A Midsummer Nights Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written in the mid-1590s. ...
Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. 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, foreswearing bodily pleasures and the company of women. One of the companions, Berowne, refuses to take the vow seriously, and argues the merits of sensual love, but is overruled and promises to abide. Berowne then reminds the King that the Princess of France has an appointment to meet him in order to discuss the surrender of the region of Aquitaine. The King denies the Princess and her retinue (which includes three lovely young women) entry into his court, insisting that they camp at a distance. The King and his friends then interview the Princess and her companions, and each falls in love with one of the ladies. Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community and province of Spain. ...
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The main plot is supplemented by several other comic subplots. A bombastic Spanish swordsman, Don Armardo, woos a low-born country wench, Jaquenetta, assisted by Moth, his witty page, and Costard, a country bumpkin. There are also two pedantic scholars, Holofernes and Sir Nathaniel, who sometimes speak to each other in schoolboy Latin. In the final act, the comic characters stage an inept pageant to entertain the noble persons, just as the mechanicals perform a barbarous play for the court at the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A Midsummer Nights Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written in the mid-1590s. ...
At the end of this lighthearted play, events suddenly take a darker turn. News arrives that the Princess's father has died and she must leave to take the throne. The nobles swear to remain true to their ladies, but the ladies, unconvinced by their youthful ardour, demand that they wait a whole year to prove their seriousness. The play thus ends with no weddings, a surprising conclusion for an Elizabethan comedy.
Style and 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. The Inns of Court, in London, are where barristers train and practice. ...
The style of Love's Labours 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.
Film adaptation - Main article: Love's Labour's Lost (2000 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 disaster. The 2000 movie Loves Labours Lost is an adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare as a romantic Hollywood musical starring Shakespearean veteran Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone, and Nathan Lane. ...
Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile British actor and film director. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
// Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...
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| The works of William Shakespeare | | Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
A Shakespearean tragedy usually involves the following: A seemingly admirable protagonist who falls from grace and into doom due to a fatal flaw in his/her character. ...
Romeo and Juliet is a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young lovers. ...
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| | Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Cardenio (lost), Cymbeline, Love's Labour's Lost, Love's Labour's Won (lost), Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter's Tale Shakespearean comedies are one of the three (sometimes four) genres of plays by William Shakespeare. ...
A Midsummer Nights Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written in the mid-1590s. ...
Alls Well That Ends Well is a comedy by William Shakespeare, which is also considered one of his problem plays. ...
Scene from As you like it, Francis Hayman, c. ...
Cardenio is a lost play, known to have been performed by the Kings Men, a London theatre company, in 1613. ...
The Mythical British King Cymbeline is identified with Cunobelinus Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare. ...
Loves Labours Won (or Loues Labours Wonne) is an unknown play written by William Shakespeare before 1598. ...
Measure for Measure is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1604 or 1605. ...
Shylock and Jessica by Maurycy Gottlieb (1856-1879) The Merchant of Venice is one of the most famous plays by William Shakespeare, written at an uncertain date between 1594 and 1597. ...
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare featuring the fat knight Falstaff. ...
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ...
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play written partly by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected plays. ...
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ...
The Comedy of Errors is an early play by William Shakespeare. ...
Miranda and Ferdinand, Angelica Kauffmann, 1782. ...
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by Shakespeare from early in his career. ...
The Two Noble Kinsmen is a play written in 1613 by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare in collaboration. ...
The Winters Tale is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ...
| | Histories: King John, Edward III (attributed), Richard II, Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part 2, Henry V, Henry VI, part 1, Henry VI, part 2, Henry VI, part 3, Richard III, Henry VIII Traditionally, the works of William Shakespeare have been grouped into three categories: tragedies, comedies, and histories. ...
King John is one of the so-called Shakespearean histories, plays written by William Shakespeare and based on the history of England. ...
The Reign of King Edward III is a play attributed to William Shakespeare. ...
Richard II is a play by William Shakespeare, based on the life of King Richard II of England, written in 1595. ...
Henry IV, part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare. ...
Henry IV part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, first published as part of Shakespeares First Folio. ...
Henry V is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. ...
King Henry VI Part 1 is one of the history plays of William Shakespeare. ...
The play we know as King Henry VI Part II was originally known as The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster. ...
Henry VI Part III is the third of William Shakespeares plays set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England, and prepares the ground for one of his best-known and most controversial plays: the tragedy of King Richard III (Richard III of England). ...
The Tragedy of Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare, in which the monarch Richard III of England is unflatteringly depicted. ...
Henry VIII was one of William Shakespeares last plays. ...
| | Other works: Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and the Turtle Shakespeares sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form published in 1609 and deal with themes such as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. ...
Venus and Adonis is one of Shakespeares longer poems. ...
The narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece is the graver work promised by English dramatist-poet William Shakespeare in his dedication to his patron, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, in Venus and Adonis. ...
The Passionate Pilgrim is a collection of poems, first published in 1599, attributed on the title-page to William Shakespeare. ...
The Phoenix and the Turtle is a poem by William Shakespeare. ...
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