Overview

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's dazzling comedy. This edition includes an introduction to Love's Labour's Lost by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate, the text of  the play  with clear explanatory notes on each page,  a scene-by-scene analysis, an introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre and a rich exploration of approaches to staging the play. This book presents a historical overview of Love's Labour's Lost in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors - Terry Hands, Liz Shipman and Gregory Doran- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.