{"id":4159,"date":"2016-04-08T14:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radioactivecookies.com\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2016-04-08T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:30:37","slug":"practical-will-loves-labours-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioactivecookies.com\/practical-will-loves-labours-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Will: Love’s Labour’s Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love's Labour's Lost<\/strong>\nA Comedy by William Shakespeare<\/p>\n\n

Honestly I was lost most of the time. There's not much story to this one, it's all in the wordplay. So much of this play is written in verse and Shakespeare takes a lot of time with the characters' dialogue. What's really interesting about the last of Shakespeare's comedies is that it's also one of the only stories\u00a0that can be completely attributed to Shakespeare. Not many people know this, but Shakespeare was more of an adapter than an original story-teller. Lost in particular\u00a0cannot be traced back to any earlier work, rather, Shakespeare based it off two distinct classes of Elizabethan time, basic country bumpkins and the royals. Which basically accounts for\u00a0his audience, both English\u00a0commoners along with Queen Elizabeth attended the Christmas production of Lost.<\/p>\n\n

What I was able to surmise from the play is not much, but here goes. The King of Navarre and his royal dudes decide to take an oath of celibacy for 3 years, in order to improve their studies. But the Princess of France is in town with her girls and word is they are all DTF, putting the royal dudes in a pickle. Meanwhile, in the country, all the simple bros are into this one dairy wench, Jaquenetta (I know, great name!) I really can't keep any other names straight, so one dude writes her a love letter,\u00a0meanwhile another dude writes one of the royal ladies a love letter, and of course, they get mixed up. Fast forward, the men go to the women disguised as Russians (for some reason) but someone has already tipped off the gals and they also exchange their identities. Then there's a play within the play, which is broken up by news that the Princess' father, King of France has died and she must return. Navarre pleads with the Princess to stay with him, but she's like, \"Yo I got a funeral to plan. Why don't you take that vow of celibacy again, but for a year? If you're still standing after that, we can talk.\" And then she peaces. Then there's a song about a year passing, the end.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love’s Labour’s Lost A Comedy by William Shakespeare Honestly I was lost most of the time. There’s not much story to this one, it’s all in the wordplay. So much of this play is written in verse and Shakespeare takes a lot of time with the characters’ dialogue. What’s really interesting about the last of … Continue reading Practical Will: Love’s Labour’s Lost<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1272,1281,1243,1242,1246],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.radioactivecookies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Loves-Labours-Lost-1.png?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mvJg-155","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3557,"url":"https:\/\/www.radioactivecookies.com\/practical-will-the-taming-of-the-shrew\/","url_meta":{"origin":4159,"position":0},"title":"Practical Will: Taming of the Shrew","date":"March 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Taming of the Shrew a Comedy by William Shakespeare It's a play within a play! 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