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July 04, 2009
London Law Students: Critics and Lovers.
We send you the complete text of this circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare, here, on one page. The play was first performed before Queen Elizabeth, at her Court in 1597. Read it this long weekend when it's quiet. Maybe after the weenie roast, or when Uncle Seamus from Albany sleeps it off in the room with the happy bunny rabbits-motif wallpaper and curtains.
"Loues Labors Loſt" was likely written for early performances before culturally-literate law students and barristers-in-training at the Inns of Court in Legal London. The idea was that the students would appreciate its sophistication and wit.
Interestingly, the play begins with a vow by several men to forswear pleasures of the flesh and the company of fast women during a three-year period of study and reflection. And to "train our intellects to vain delight".
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Posted by Rob Bodine at July 4, 2009 11:48 PM