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Alfred Tennyson's poem The Princess (and, by extension, Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Princess Ida) is speculated by Gerhard Joseph to have been inspired by Love's Labour's Lost. [ 38 ] Thomas Mann in his novel Doctor Faustus (1943) has the fictional German composer Adrian Leverkühn attempt to write an opera on the story of the play.
Costard is a comic figure in the play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare. A country bumpkin, he is arrested in the first scene for flouting the king's proclamation that all men of the court avoid the company of women for three years. While in custody, the men of the court use him to further their own romantic endeavors.
Love's Labour's Lost is a 2000 British musical romantic comedy film written, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, based on the comic play of the same name by William Shakespeare. The first feature film to be made of this lesser-known comedy, Branagh's fourth film of a Shakespeare play was a box-office and critical disappointment. [1] [2]
The composer read Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost again, and found similarities to Mozart's Così fan tutte in its "stylized, deliberately artificial plot". [2] Auden and Nabokov discussed the project in February 1969. [2] Auden won Chester Kallman to participate, as before for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Henze's Elegy for ...
It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. As it appears only once in Shakespeare's works, it is a hapax legomenon in the Shakespeare canon. At 27 letters, it is the longest word in the English language to strictly alternate between consonants and vowels. [1]
Love's Labour's Won is a lost play attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, though no copies are known to have survived. Scholars dispute whether it is a true lost work, possibly a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost , or an alternative title to a known Shakespeare play.
Love's Labor Lost is a 1920 short, animated film by Bray Productions and is one of the silent Krazy Kat cartoons. [1] The film's title references a play by William Shakespeare . Plot
Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies. Love's Labour's Lost or Love's Labor Lost may also refer to: Love's Labour's Lost, a 1973 opera by Nicolas Nabokov; Love's Labour's Lost, a 2000 film by Kenneth Branagh; Love's Labor Lost, a 1920 Krazy Kat cartoon "Love's Labor Lost" , an episode of ER