Love's Labour's Lost

Written by William Shakespeare

Narrated by LibriVox Community

Love's Labour's Lost is an early comedy by William Shakespeare. The King of Navarre and his three friends take a vow of study and seclusion for three years, during which they are forbidden to see or speak to women. Their vows are immediately tested by the arrival of the Pricess of France and her three ladies to the King's court. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Cast:

Biron: mb
Boyet: Mark Penfold
Costard: John D. Nugent
Don Adriano de Armado: David Goldfarb
Dull:David Lawrence
Dumain: om123
Ferdinand: Bruce Pirie
First Lord: Vicente Costa Filho
Forester: Philippa
Holofernes: Denny Sayers
Jaquenetta: Chelsea Baker
Katharine: Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Longaville: Ric F
Maria: Availle
Mercade: Kim Stich
Moth: Karen Savage
Princess of France: Elizabeth Klett
Rosaline: Arielle Lipshaw
Sir Nathaniel: Robert Fletcher
Narrator: Dawn Krosnowski Malicsi

Audio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Reviews for Love's Labour's Lost

[R. Michael Markham · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Shakespeare's version of the "He-Man Woman Hater's Club" in which the king and three friends swear off women for three years to devote themselves to prayer. With the same predictable results that one would expect. I found the play hot and cold. Mostly dull working between scenes of funny dialogue. Though in the hands of talented actors and actresses, the play has the potential of being very hilarious. I am making my way through Shakespeare's plays and as I read a play I find it's performance on YouTube. Watching the play helps fill in gaps, and makes reading the play easier to follow.