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Love's Labour's Lost (version 2)
As You Like It, III, 2.
As You Like It, III, 2.
Scene ii. Enter...paper] Capell. Enter Orlando. Ff.
11: Scene iii. Pope.
25: good] pood F1.
28: good] bad Hanmer. gross Warburton.
33: hope.] hope— Rowe.
41: Touchstone] Mr. Touchstone Capell.
50: a mutton] F1. mutton F2 F3 F4.
54: more sounder] sounder Pope.
56: courtier’s] countiers F2.
59: flesh indeed!] flesh indeed: Ff. flesh: indeed!— Steevens.
71: bawd] F1 F2. a bawd F3 F4.
76: Master] M^r Ff.
77: Scene iv. Pope.
Enter R....reading.] Capell. Enter Rosalind. Ff.
78: western] the western Pope.
82: lined] Linde F1 F2 F3. Lind F4. limn’d Capell.
84: face] fair S. Walker conj.
85: the fair of] F1 F2. the most fair F3 F4. the face of Rowe (ed. 2). of the fair Becket conj.
88: rank to] F3 F4. ranke to F1 F2. rate to Hanmer. rant at Grey conj.
95: Winter] F3 F4. Wintred F1 F2.
99: nut] F1 F2. meat F3 F4.
112: forest] forester Warburton.
113: Scene v. Pope.
115: [reads] om. Ff.
a desert] Rowe. desert Ff. desert silent Steevens (Tyrwhitt conj.).
129: The] F1 F2. This F3 F4.
131: charged] charg’d F1 F2. chang’d F3 F4.
135: cheek] cheeke F1 F2. cheeks F3 F4.
her] Rowe. his Ff.
145: pulpiter] Edd. (Spedding conj.). Jupiter Ff. Juniper Warburton.
147: cried] cride, have your parishiones withall, and never cri’de F2.
148: back, friends] back-friends Theobald.
152: [Exeunt C. and T.] Exit. Ff.
153: Scene vi. Pope.
162: the wonder] F1 wonder F2 F3 F4.
163, 164: palm-tree] plane-tree Collier conj.
164: Pythagoras’] Pythagoras. Ff. Pythagoras’s Rowe.
168: And] Ay, and Capell.
169: you] F1 F2. your F3 F4.
177: tell] till F2.
180: hooping] F1 F2 F3. hoping F4. whooping Theobald.
181: Good my] Odd’s my Theobald. Good! cry Becket conj. Goad my Jackson conj. Hood my Staunton conj.
complexion] coz perplexer Heath conj.
182: hose] F1. a hose F2 F3 F4.
183, 184: South-sea of discovery;] South-sea off discovery. Theobald (Warburton). South-sea Discover, Johnson conj. South-sea discovery: Id. conj. south-sea-off discovery. Capell.
184: who is it] who is it? Hanmer. who it is Anon. conj.
200: maid] mind Anon. conj.
210: Gargantua’s] Garagantua’s Pope.
212: in] om. Heath conj.
216: wrestled] wrastled F1 F3 F4. wrasted F2.
217: atomies] F1 F2. atomes F3 F4. atoms Rowe.
219: good] a good Steevens.
219, 220: a tree] an oak-tree Hanmer (Warburton conj.).
221, 222: drops forth such] F2 F3 F4. droppes forth F1. drops such Capell.
229: thy tongue] Rowe. the tongue Ff.
230: unseasonably] very unseasonably Reed (1803).
231: heart] Hart Ff.
236: Scene vii. Pope.
here] heere F1. nerre F2. near F3 F4.
Enter...] Ff (after line 235).
242: buy] Ff. b’w’ Rowe.
246: more] moe F1.
258: you] your Mason conj.
right] right in the stile of the Hanmer.
259: your] you F2.
264: most] F1. no F2 F3 F4.
276: Scene viii. Pope.
277: [Exit...] om. Ff.
280: [Advances. Capell.
290: paces] F1 F2. places F3 F4.
294: who] F1. whom F2 F3 F4.
doth he trot] ambles Time Hunter conj.
295: trots hard] ambles Id. conj.
297: hard] ambling Id. conj.
298: year] years F4.
299: ambles Time] doth he trot Hunter conj.
305: ambles] trots Hunter conj.
306: Who] F1. Whom F2 F3 F4.
309: Who] F1. Whom F2 F3 F4.
stays it] stands he Collier (Collier MS.).
317: kindled] kind-led Pope. See note (vii).
323: lectures] F3 F4. lectors F1. lecturs F2.
324: and] om. F3 F4.
330: one] F1 F2. ones F3 F4.
331: monstrous] most monstrous S. Walker conj.
335: barks] borkes F2.
337: deifying] F2 F3 F4. defying F1.
344: are] art F1.
346: blue] flu Becket conj.
349, 350: in beard] F1. no beard F2 F3 F4.
354. accoutrements] Rowe. accoustrements Ff.
384: his mad...living] Ff. a dying...living Johnson conj. a mad...loving Id. conj.
living humour of madness] humour of loving madness Farmer conj.
388: clean] F1. cleare F2. cleer F3. clear F4.
About
Temptations and infatuations abound in this sparklingly linguistic early comedy from Shakespeare, where cerebral pursuits and ascetic intentions prove no match for the nobles of Navarre’s royal court when the Princess of France and her attendants arrive on a political mission and find themselves enmeshed in a mission of far more amorous ambitions. An entertaining battle of sexes, wits and classes ensues as the great master of the English language concocts a roundelay of semantic gamesmanship, mixing high lyricism, bawdy wordplay and a fair degree of scholarly satire together with elastic dexterity to poke fun at masculine romantic ideations and female objectification, the ambiguities of communication, as well as the ignorance of the seemingly cultured societal sets. And then, in a stunning tonal turn mere moments before the play’s conclusion that manages to thwart all our expectations, the young Shakespeare grounds this heretofore exuberant work in a startlingly mature realism that is far removed from his most popular comedies, lending Love’s Labour’s Lost both a worldliness and honesty that marks it as a work of astonishing complexity.
And to perform it all? Three men (Craig Franklin, Tomas Peter, and Brad “Hamlet” Filippone) and three women (Sonia, Jenn Broda, and Kelly S. Taylor), determined to give you a performance of Shakespeare's work that you will never forget. You thought you knew your Shakespeare? Well, think again! - Summary by Tomas Peter
Cast list: Craig Franklin: Narrator; Costard; Dumain; Maria & Marcade. Brad “Hamlet” Filippone: Biron; Holofernes & French Lord. Jenn Broda: The Princess of France; Dull & Ver (the Spring). Kelly S. Taylor: Ferdinand, King of Navarre; Katharine; Jaquenetta & Forester. Sonia: Rosaline; Moth; Longaville & Hiems (the Winter). Tomas Peter: Don Adriano de Armado; Boyet & Sir Nathaniel.
Other versions of Love's Labour's Lost (version 2)
- Love's Labour's Lost — narrated by multiple narrators · English
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