The Complete Love's Labors Lost: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781504948845)

Love's Labors Lost is "widely considered Shakespeare's most intellectually challenging comedy" (Bate, back cover). From its extensive wordplay to the plot machinations, a reader (viewer) is continuously challenged. The recurrent bawdy is another factor that forces one to pay close attention. Thus, the play can be quite satisfying. However, it can become tiresome too, especially considering the high-flown rhetoric of Holofernes. Finally, the discrepancy between the men's view of the women and the women's view of the men should stimulate one to examine whether there is depth to the comedy or whether it is all for fun.

Author: Donald J. Richardson
ISBN-10: 150494884X
ISBN-13: 9781504948845
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2015
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d