Tag Archives: Love’s Labour’s Lost

My 10 Favorite Shakespearean Clowns

Posted on April 10, 2018 by

One of William Shakespeare’s many literary gifts was the ability to create and develop memorable characters: kings and queens, villains and heroes, lovers and losers, and more. Some of his greatest creations, to my mind, where his fools and clowns … Continue reading →

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Cupids and Camels

Posted on November 3, 2017 by

This week’s episode (here) of The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Berowne’s “I, forsooth in love!” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost with a Bible passage relating Isaac and Rebekah’s love story from Genesis 24:62-67 in the King James Version of … Continue reading →

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Berowne Berates

Posted on May 15, 2017 by

Another Monday, another insult. At least here at The Bard and the Bible that is the case. Today’s insult comes from Love’s Labour’s Lost, where Berowne insults Costard: Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! (Love’s Labour’s Lost, IV, 3, 199). As it happens, “whoreson” … Continue reading →

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Reviewsday: RSC’s Love’s Labour’s Lost

Posted on May 9, 2017 by

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2014 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by Christopher Luscombe, is a brilliantly conceived and executed adaptation of Shakespeare’s early comedy (planned, as the trailer below shows, to be paired with Much Ado About Nothing, which … Continue reading →

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Comic Relief: My Top 16 Casting Choices

Posted on April 12, 2017 by

Nathan Fillion and Jennifer Lawrence as Benedick and Beatrice? Nick Frost & Simon Pegg as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Be still my heart! Casting directors have a big job, especially when it comes to casting Shakespeare. Their casts are chosen, based not … Continue reading →

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Reviewsday: Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s Lost

Posted on March 14, 2017 by

Recently I caught The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2014 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, a delightful Edwardian adaptation of Shakespeare’s play (and will review it soon on this blog). So I thought on this “Reviewsday” (see what I did there?) I would post a review … Continue reading →

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