Love's Labour's Lost (version 2) - Free Audiobook
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Love's Labour's Lost (version 2)
As You Like It, IV, 1.
As You Like It, IV, 1.
1: be] om. F1.
17: in which my] and which by Malone.
my] by F1.
18: in] is Steevens.
23: my] om. Rowe. me Warburton.
26: Enter...] Ff (after line 23).
28: Jaq.] Orl. F2.
buy] Ff. b’w’y Rowe.
29: [Exit.] F2 F3 F4. om. F1. [Exit Jaques. Dyce, after gondola, line 34.
34: gondola] Pope. gundello Ff. gondallo Rowe.
42: thousandth] Rowe. thousand Ff.
51: make] can make Hanmer.
54: beholding] beholden Pope.
comes] F1 F4. come F2 F3.
in his] against Anon. conj.
55: fortune] forehead Anon. conj.
60: leer] lure Becket conj.
65: Ros.] Orl. F2.
68: warn] ward Steevens conj. warr’nt Anon. conj.
75: think...ranker] thank...rather Collier (Collier MS.).
76: of] out of Collier MS.
82: die] F1 F4. doe F2 F3.
86: brains] F1. brain F2 F3 F4.
91: him] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.
93: chroniclers] F2 F3 F4. chronoclers F1. coroners Hanmer (Anon. conj.).
Sestos] Cestos F1.
117: Ay] om. F3 F4.
119: Ros.] Cel. Anon. conj.
122: I...commission] Printed as a verse in Ff.
123: there’s] there Steevens (Farmer conj.). thus Lloyd conj.
139: thou art] you are Rowe (ed. 2).
sleep] weep Warburton.
144: doors] doors fast Rowe (ed. 2).
146: ’twill] it will F4.
149: wilt] F3 F4. wil’t F1 F2.
156: occasion] accusation Hanmer. accusing Collier (Collier MS.). confusion Staunton conj.
157: she will...like a fool] she’ll...a fool Capell.
171: pathetical] atheistical Warburton. jesuitical Grey conj.
179: try] try you Collier MS.
180: Scene iii. Pope.
188: it] in F1.
193: I’ll tell] I tell Edd. conj.
194: Orlando] Orland F2.
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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