

Love's Labour's Lost
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
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
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.
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.
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
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