At some point here I need to start going through film versions of Love's Labours Lost, because I've table-read it twice now on Discord and it has turned out to be one of my favorite Shakespeares. Possibly one of my favorite plays, period. And I absolutely do not trust Kenneth Branagh with it; he wouldn't know a delicate touch if it lightly brushed by him. He's very good at many things and airiness is not one of them.
I don't know how much you know the play, and I don't know how well it comes across read to oneself. Table-read, it became immediately obvious that it would be an absolute nightmare to stage, require a virtuoso to stage well, and be entirely worth it if somebody did. I haven't seen it go by theatres since I've started looking, though I'm sure it will eventually, and I hope it's well done when it does.
Richard II is the other Shakespeare with which table-reading made me fall in love, and I hope and trust someone has already written the thesis on what it says about the divine right of kings which I babbled at everyone about after we read it. But I haven't the strength to go through JSTOR. Sigh.
Anyway, if you ever run into a good Love's Labours Lost, please do let me know ASAP.
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I don't know how much you know the play, and I don't know how well it comes across read to oneself. Table-read, it became immediately obvious that it would be an absolute nightmare to stage, require a virtuoso to stage well, and be entirely worth it if somebody did. I haven't seen it go by theatres since I've started looking, though I'm sure it will eventually, and I hope it's well done when it does.
Richard II is the other Shakespeare with which table-reading made me fall in love, and I hope and trust someone has already written the thesis on what it says about the divine right of kings which I babbled at everyone about after we read it. But I haven't the strength to go through JSTOR. Sigh.
Anyway, if you ever run into a good Love's Labours Lost, please do let me know ASAP.