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Title: Love's Labour's Lost
Series: ----------
Author: William Shakespeare
Rating: 2 of 5 Stars
Genre: Play, Comedy
Pages: 98
Format: Digital Edition
Series: ----------
Author: William Shakespeare
Rating: 2 of 5 Stars
Genre: Play, Comedy
Pages: 98
Format: Digital Edition
Synopsis:
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King Ferdinand, 3
of his lords and a Spaniard, all take a vow to study, fast and avoid
women for 3 years. Of course, King Ferdinand forgets that he's
supposed to be welcoming a French Princess into his court. She and
her ladies arrive, are forced to decamp outside of the city and all
the men fall instantly in love with the ladies.
They write love
letters, lie to each other, all catch each other out, unsuccessfully
woo the ladies as Russians (I kid you not) and then, just when they
are about to successfully win the ladies as themselves, the
Princess's father dies and the ladies all retire for a year.
Throw in some
mouthy servants and smart ass pages and bob's your uncle.
My
Thoughts:
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A lot of the humor of this play was based on the reparte between the
men amongst themselves, the ladies amongst themselves and then
amongst them all as a group. They cut, they swipe, they're snide and
pompous. It didn't work for me at all.
The servants should have been whipped to death for their insolence or
at least muzzled. The men were idiots for taking such an oath in the
first place and then to watch them each perjure themselves was just
disgraceful. The women were cold and playing it all as a game when
they should have been much more serious.
All in all, if a dragon had walked on stage and eaten every
character, I would have stood up, cheered my head off and then run
off as fast as I could before the dragon ate me. I am beginning to
suspect that I don't like Shakespeare's style or sense of humor.
★★☆☆☆