Love's Labour's Lost

Name: Love's Labour's Lost
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780060886417

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Ian Richardson, Full Cast

Abridged: 2 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 12/20/2005

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Medieval Poetry, Haiku

Synopsis

This new edition of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost presents a highly readable text of the play based on the first quarto of 1598. A thorough but concise critical commentary and a comprehensive introduction illuminate the significant elements of the play, its remarkable use of language, and its performance history.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

About Ian Richardson

Ian Richardson is a distinguished stage, film and television actor and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His film credits include M. Butterfly, Dark City, and most recently, From Hell.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on February 17, 2020

It could be argued that one of the themes of Shakespeare's plays is the glories and failures of language itself. If so, it is truer of Love's Labor's Lost than of any other play in the canon. The courtiers, both in their sparring and wooing (and it is often difficult to tell which is which) engage i......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 03, 2022

Love is a highly complicated thing in William Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost. Long dismissed as a relatively lightweight comedy, Love's Labour's Lost takes many of the conventions of the romantic comedy -- a genre that was as firmly established in the theatres of Shakespeare's time as it is......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on August 04, 2020

What a bizarre play. 3 stars for now but I have a feeling this might grow on me. (Edit: Yeah, it grew on me.)......more