Love's Labour's Lost: Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780815309840 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 478 str.

Felicia Hardison Londre

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Fifty-three contributions, representing a time span of almost 400 years, examine the play from a variety of perspectives: historical context, dating and sources, character analysis, comic elements, verbal conceits, evidence of authorship, and feminist interpretations. Critical reviews are balanced b

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General Editor's Introduction * Acknowledgments * Illustrations * Introduction * Love's Labour's Lost and the Critical Legacy, Felicia Hardison Londre * Love's Labour's Lost and The Critics * From Alba, or the Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover (1598), Robert Tofte * To the Right Honorable the Lorde Vycount Cranborne at the Courte (1604), Sir Walter Cope; Remarks on the Plays of Shakespear: The Argument of Love's Labour's Lost (1710), Charles Gildon * Notes on Shakespeare's Plays: Love's Labour's Lost (excerpts) (1765), Samuel Johnson * Love's Labour Lost, from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature: Criticisms on Shakespeare's Comedies (1808), August Wilhelm von Schlegel * Love's Labour's Lost, from the Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (1811), Samuel Taylor Coleridge [reported by J. Tomalin] * Love's Labour's Lost, from Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets (1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Love's Labour's Lost, from Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817), William Hazlitt * On Love's Labour's Lost (1878), Walter Pater; Shakespeare's Word-Play and Puns: Love's Labour's Lost (1889), Thomas R. Price * A Shakespearean Quibble (1898), James W. Bright * Love's Labour's Lost, from Shakespeare: His Music and Song (1915), A.H. Moncure-Sime * Love's Labour's Lost Restudied (1925), Oscar J. Campbell; Love's Labour's Lost: One of Shakespeare's First Bows (1942), Jacques Copeau, translated from the French by Mari Pappas * Love's Labour's Lost (1953), Bobbyann Roesen (Anne Barton) * The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love's Labour's Lost (1959), C.L. Barber * Love's Labour's Lost: The Story of a Conversion (1962), John Dover Wilson, C.H. * Love's Labour's Lost and the Early Shakespeare (1962), Alfred Harbage * The Dialogues of Spring and Winter: A Key to the Unity of Love's Labour's Lost (1967), Catherine M. McLay * Love's Labour's Lost The Grace of Society (1971), Thomas M. Greene * The Failure of Relationship Between Men and Women in Love's Labour's Lost (1981), Peter B. Erickson * Oath-Taking (1981), Irene G. Dash * The Copy for the Folio Text of Love's Labour's Lost (1982), Stanley Wells * The Structure of Love's Labour's Lost (1982), Koshi Nakanori, translated from the Japanese by Toru Iwasaki * M. Marcad and the Dance of Death: Love's Labour's Lost v. 2.705-711 (1986), Ren Graziani * Jaquenetta's Baby's Father: Recovering Paternity in Love's Labour's Lost (1990), Dorothea Kehler * Armado and Costard in the French Academy: Player as Clown (1993), Meredith Anne Skura, * Elizabethan Views of the "Other": French, Spanish, and Russians in Love's Labour's Lost (1995), Felicia Hardison Londre * Love's Labour's Lost on Stage * Review of the Dramatic Students at St. James's Theatre (1886), Bernard Shaw * Review of Love's Labor's Lost at Daly's Theatre (1891), New York Times; Imitations: The Students, 1762 (1904), Horace Howard Furness * Review of Peines d'amour perdues at the Od on: From Le Monde (1946), Robert Kemp * Review of Peines d'amour perdues at the Od on: From La Vie intellectuelle (1946), Henri Gouhier * From The Shifting Point (1987), Peter Brooke * Armado's "You that way; we this way" (1969-70), James Hisao Kodama * Love's Labor Reviewed as Mozart-Like (1974), John H. Harvey * Review of Love's Labour's Lost at the Guthrie Theater (1974), Mike Steele * Review of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1978), Michael Billington * Rehearsal Process as Critical Practice: John Barton's 1978 Love's Labour's Lost (1988), Barbara Hodgdon * From a Theatregoer's Notebook: The RSC Love's Labour's Lost (1985), Felicia Hardison Londre * Moshinsky's Love's Labour's Lost (1985), Mary Z. Maher * Another winner, a feast worthy of the Bard himself: Review of Love's Labour's Lost, Performed by the Great Lakes Theater Festival (1988), Marianne Evett * Director Leaves Mark on Love's Labour's Lost: Review of Love's Labour's Lost, performed by the Great Lakes Theater Festival (1988), Tony Mastroaianni * Youthful Touch of Tenderness: Review of Love's Labor's Lost, at the Public Theater (1989), Clive Barnes * On Directing Love's Labour's Lost-Five Times, Gerald Freedman * On Designing Love's Labour's Lost-Twice, John Ezell; Love's Labor's Lost (1992), Randall Louis Anderson * Continuous Sonnets (1993), Amy Reiter * Love's Labour's Lost (1993), Margaret Loftus Ranald * Shakespeare, Half of Creation: Reminiscences of Don Armado, Peter Huszti * The "Otherness" of the Foreigner in Contemporary Productions of Love's Labour's Lost, Daniel J. Watermeier * On Playing Berowne, Theodore Swetz * Envoi, Melia Bensussen * Contributors of New Material to This Volume

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Felicia Hardison Londre is Curators' professor of Theater at the University of Missouri--Kansas City and dramaturg for Missouri Repertory Theater, Hart of America, Shakespeare Festival, and Nebraska Shakepseare Festival. She is currently President of the American Theater and Drama Society.