Love's Labour's Lost Critical Essays [Paperback]

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lostfrom a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.General Editor's Introduction * Acknowledgments * Illustrations * Introduction* Love's Labour's Lostand the Critical Legacy, Felicia Hardison Londre * Love'sLabour's Lost and The Critics* From Alba, or the Month'sMinde 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'sLabour's Lost (excerpts) (1765), Samuel Johnson* Love'sLabour Lost, from Lectures on Dramatic Art andLiterature: Criticisms on Shakespeare's Comedies (1808), August Wilhelm von Schlegel* Love's Labour's Lost,from the Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (1811), SamuelTaylor Coleridge [reported by J. Tomalin]* Love'sLabour's Lost,from Lectures and Notes on Shakspere andOther English Poets (1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge* Love's Labour's Lost,from Characters of Shakespeare'sPlays (1817), William Halæ