Love's Labour's Lost
Americannoun
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Love’s Labour’s Lost Staged reading of the Bard’s romantic fable.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2019
Love's Labour's Lost, directed and adapted by Alex Timbers with songs by Michael Friedman, a founding associate artist of The Civilians.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2013
However, it could be that at the end of that son’s labors, you’d wish he’d spent less time analyzing Love's Labour’s Lost and more time getting some skills that resulted in a paycheck.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2012
In 2005 she directed Love's Labour's Lost in an ancient garden in Kabul.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2012
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare has Berowne complain, “Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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