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William Shakespeare
Love's Labor's Lost
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
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William Shakespeare's
LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST
Directed byArne Zaslove
November 9 - 191983
A Note on Love's Labor's Lostby John Barton
Love's Labor's Lost is one of Shakespeare ' s
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rmost perplexing texts . It is highly inconsistent,both in quality and style of writing . Passagesof jingling verbal dexterity, thin in dramatic
t+~content and loosely related to the characters' ,.situation, alternate with others as good as thebest in Shakespeare's mature comedies . The.changes are extreme and abrupt ; as extreme,
asay, as a play made up from assorted bits of r
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,~The play looks at the process of growing up.With the partial exception of Berowne andRosaline, there is very little contact, let alone
, ..relationship, between the lovers ; Longaville and William ShakespeareMaria . Dumaine and Katharine don't even speakto each other till the very end of the play.The men are as much in love with being in loveas with the thing itself . Wallowing in theirfeelings and in their powers of verbalising love,they are perhaps not all that aware of the actual On every level the play is built on appositionobjects of their love . The girls, too, are not and paradox . Everything derives from Shake-what they seem, and certainly not what they speare 's favourite juxtaposition of Ceremonyseem to their lovers . They have a surface and Nature. No sooner do the lords vowsophistication, and on public occasions may at hermithood and chastity than their pretensionsfirst blush, look like goddesses . But by them- are exposed by Costard, the natural man, whoselves they are more deb than courtier . The has been taken with a wench and is quitePrincess, a young girl sent on a political mission open about it . The Princess arrives with a greatbecause her father is ill, is shy, in some awe train on a political embassage, and finds herselfof the King, and none too sure about how to having to sleep in the fields . Armado sees him-cope with any situation . But when the news self as the Courtier of Courtiers, but he falls incomes of her father's death, she knows, like love with a country copulative and becomes aPrince Hal, that she has to grow up, take the ploughman . His love is ridiculous but is is alsothrone and rule . real, certainly as real as the self-indulgent love
The comedy moves in a series of reversals . of the rest . Every character and situation is
Nothing ever works out as expected . The quirks turned topsy-turvy.of human nature explode every situation, and The play ends with the moral dialogue of thethe wheel of fortune turns even swifter than in learned men : When the meadows are full ofthe History plays . Every character and situation delight, look out for the cuckoo ; and whenis set up in order to be sent up . The series blood is nipped and ways be foul—be merry,reaches its climax with the arrival of Mercade .
like the note of the owl .
"A fencing lesson" Left to right : Stephanie Berkmann (Maria), ArneZaslove, Tamsin Kelsey (Princess of France) and Pam Dangelmaier(Katharine) .
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LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST
Fantastic and contrived as they are, those absurd
What The Critics Said
vows to which the four friends commit them-selves in the initial scene spring from a recog-
It is a protest against youthful schemes of
nition of the tragic brevity and impermanenceshaping life according to notions rather than
of life that is peculiarly Renaissance . For theaccording to reality, a protest against idealising
people of the sixteenth century, the world wasaway the facts of life .
no longer the mere shadow of a greater Reality,Ernest Dowden (1875) the imperfect image of that City of God whosePlay is often that about which people are most towers and golden spires had domii ated theserious ; and the humourist may observe how, universe of the Middle Ages . While the thoughunder all love of playthings, there is almost of Death was acquiring a new poignancy in itsalways hidden an appreciation of something contrast with man's increasing sense of the valuereally engaging and delightful . . .For what is called and loveliness of life in this world . Immortalityfashion in these matters occupies, in each age, tended to become, for Renaissance minds, amuch of the care of many of the most dis- vague and even a somewhat dubious gift un-cerning people, furnishing them with a kind of less it could be connected in some way with themirror of their real inward refinements and their earth itself, and the affairs of human life there.capacity for selection . Such modes or fashions Thus there arose among the humanist writersare, at their best, an example of the artistic of Italy that intense and sometimes anguishedpredominance of form over matter—of the longing, voiced by Navarre at the beginning ofmanner of the doing it over the thing done— Loue's Labor's Lost, to attain "an immortalityand have a beauty of their own . It is so with of glory, survival in the minds of men by thethat old euphuism of the Elizabethan age—that record of great deeds or of intellectual excel-pride of dainty language and curious expression, lence ." At the very heart of the plan for anwhich it is very easy to ridicule, which often Academe lies the reality of Death, the Renais-made itself ridiculous, but which had below it a lance desire to inherit, through remarkablereal sense of fitness and nicety ; and which, as we devotion to learning, an eternity of Fame, andsee in this very play, and still more clearly in thus to insure some continuity of personal exist-the sonnets, had some fascination for the young ence, however slight, against the ravages ofShakespeare himself .
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LOVE'S LABOR'S LOSTby
William Shakespeare
Directed byArne Zaslove
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Sets and Lighting designed by
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CAST(in order of appearance)
KING OF NAVARRE Mark HopkinsLONGAVILLE Chris BeckDUMAINE Aaron NorrisBEROWNE Bruce DowDULL John MacKayCOSTARD Carlo CiottiDON ARMADO Luc CorbeilMOTH Carolyn SoperJAQUENETTA Pauline LandbergBOYET Patrick BlaneyPRINCESS OF FRANCE Tamsin KelseyMARIA Stephanie BerkmannKATHARINE Pam DangelmaierROSALINE Shauna BairdSTUDENTS Kathy Bracht, Carol NesbittSIR NATHANIEL Lyle MoonHOLOFERNES Jeff SmythMARCADE Chris RobsonAIDE-DE-CAMP Michael DeKoven
The Action occurs on the grounds of an academic institution circa 1914.There will be one intermission.
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"Your oaths are pass'd, and now subscribe your names"
Love's Labor's Lost is generally believed to have
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-.at some courtier's house in late 1593 . Theearliest extant text is the quarto of 1598, whichfurnished the copy for the 1623 First Folio . Nospecific sources for the plot are known . Incidentsin the play, however, resemble historical eventsoccurring in France during the sixteenth century, ":,and the main characters bear names similar to
,'those of contemporary French nobility . Veildtopical allusions to certain Elizabethan courtiersand literary figures have been detected.The plot revolves around the attempt of Fer-
tdinand, king of Navarre, to turn his court intoa Platonic-style academy for three years . Duringthis period Ferdinand and three courtiersLongaville, Dumain, and Berowne—vow to
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'abstain from any association with women . Thefoolishness of their oaths is quickly revealedwhen the princess of France, accompanied bythree sprightly ladies-in-waiting, arrives on adiplomatic matter . The earnest wooing thatensues is halted upon news of the death of the
'a 4 aprincess's father . Although the ladies must leaveNavarre immediately, they promise to accepttheir suitors as husbands after a twelve-month :
awaiting period . In the minor plot Don Armado,a comical Spanish nobleman, woos the countrylass Jaquenetta
. Act IV Scene Rehearsal Our Parson misdoubts it:Love's Labor's Lost is reminiscent in its tone and It
was treason he said ." Left to right : Carlo Ciottidiction of the artificial courtly comedies of John (Costard), Pauline Landberg (Jacquenetta) and MarkLyly . The ornate language, the wordplays, Hopkins (King of Navarre)
Photo : Marcel Williamsthe combats of wit, and the probable satireon Sir Walter Raleigh's scientific discussion the form of comedy most suited to express hisgroups (Shakespeare ' s "School of Night") are views on mankind . Despite flaws in plot structurethe stuff for courtly audiences . The only play of and superficiality in characterization, a clear-its type among the comedies, it shows Shake- cut theme emerges : the debunking of those whospeare 's flexibility in his early experiments to find believe learning can be divorced from life.
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