Research Catalog

Title

Love's labour's lost / Miriam Gilbert.

Author

Gilbert, Miriam.

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1993.

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Description

viii, 137 p., [6] p. of plates : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Though Love's Labour's Lost was performed throughout Shakespeare's active career, the play then disappeared from the British stage for almost two hundred years. Today, however, its popularity is high, both with theatre critics and audiences. In this study, Miriam Gilbert focuses primarily on six productions: on the Elizabethan stage, on the Victorian Stage, the Peter Brooke and John Barton productions at Stratford-upon-Avon, Michael Kahn's 1968 staging in America and the 1984 BBC television version. The relationships between the productions receive special attention. Over the years, productions have stressed the darker side of the play, as actors, directors and critics have found Love's Labour's Lost a more subtle and complex play than early commentators might suggest.

Series Statement

Shakespeare in performance

Uniform Title

Shakespeare in performance.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Stage history
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. I. 'As it was presented before her Highness': Love's Labour's Lost on the Elizabethan stage -- Ch. II. Disappearance and reappearance: The Students and Sadler's Wells, 1857 -- Ch. III. 'The scene begins to cloud': Stratford-upon-Avon, 1946 -- Ch. IV. 'A pleasant conceited comedie': BBC Television, 1984 -- Ch. V. 'Some delightful ostentation': Stratford, Connecticut, 1968 -- Ch. VI. Spring and Winter: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1965 and 1978 -- Ch. VII. 'You that way; we this way'.

ISBN

• 0719027497 (hardback)
• 0719027500 (paperback)

LCCN

^^^92014074^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library