Love's Labour's Lost (The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare)

David, Richard (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0415026954 / ISBN 13: 9780415026956

Published by Methuen, 1968

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love's Labour's Lost (The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare)
• Publisher: Methuen
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415026954
• ISBN 13: 9780415026956
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 50 grams

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Synopsis

For where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a women's eye? The King of Navarre persuades his courtiers to join him in renouncing the world for three years of study. Foremost amongst their undertakings is a promise to forsake the company of women; but no sooner have they taken their oath than a beautiful French princess and her female attendants arrive at the palace gates on a diplomatic mission. It is love at first sight, of course; and then each man faces the challenge of wooing his lady without breaking his vow and without allowing the others to find out. Formal and scholarly, rich in wordplay and poetic invention, "Love's Labour's Lost" is perhaps the most demanding of Shakespeare's comedies, but on this recording Sir Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Brett and Geraldine McEwan lead a distinguished cast in a lively performance.

Book Description

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.