Love's Labour's Lost by Eric Rasmussen - ISBN: 9780230217911
Paperback
Discover Shakespeare’s dazzling comedy: A modern edition for the twenty-first century.

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    5 September 2008

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Summary

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s dazzling comedy.

With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents:

  • A historical overview of Love’s Labour’s Lost in performance
  • A detailed look at specific productions
  • Recommendations for film versions

Included in this edition are interviews with three leading directors – Terry Hands, Liz Shipman and Gregory Doran – pr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780230217911
ISBN-10:0230217915
Author:Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate, Prof. Eric Rasmussen
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:The RSC Shakespeare
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:5 September 2008
Weight:213g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 10mm
Series:The RSC Shakespeare
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Critics Review

‘A triumphant addition to our times.’ - Fiona Shaw, The Times

‘A triumphant addition to our times.’ - Fiona Shaw, The Times ‘The glossary includes much that has been ignored in the past, enlightening the new student…as well as adding to the vocabulary of those who have been enjoying his plays all their lives… an invaluable resource.’ - Speech and Drama

About The Author

Eric Rasmussen

JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as “the best modern book on Shakespeare.” In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen ‘for services to Higher Education’.

ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World’s Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

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