What follows is Shakespeare’s most linguistically show-offy comedy — a firework display of sonnets, puns, pedants, and parody.
Then comes the ending, which does something no other comedy of the period dares, and which lifts the whole confection into something stranger and finer. A connoisseur’s play: the wordplay asks patience, and repays it.
Love's Labour's Lost on screen
1Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Film · dir. Kenneth Branagh
Staged as a 1930s musical
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