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/LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST/ (1985)

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Dvd Region: 2+4 Pal (UK & Europe)
Certificate: U
Running Time: Approx. 120 minutes
Type: Fullscreen
Originally Transmitted: 5th January 1985
Dvd Release Date: 2005
Released By: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Distributed By: DD Home Entertainment
Format: Colour Dvd Pal
Language: English
Subtitles: English sdh
Audio: Mono
Format: 4:3
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A COMEDIE
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.

“Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves, Or else we lose ourselves to keep out oaths.”
When the King of Navarre and three of his lords vow to renounce women and devote themselves to study, they have forgotten the forthcoming arrival of the Princess of France and her attractive ladies-in-waiting . . .
This production of Shakespeare’s comedy highlights his satire of intellectual pride and pedantry. Wit and word-play are the weapons in the play’s sparkling conflicts and this cast perform magnificently in capturing the perfect tone for Shakespeare’s playful and elaborate poetry.

"Let fame that all hunt after in their lives,
Live registered upon our brazen tombs . . ."
Jonathan Kent Maureen Lipman
Christopher Blake Geoffrey Burridge
Mike Gwilym and Jenny Agutter
Directed by Elijah Moshinsky
Produced by Shaun Sutton

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Cast overview, first billed only
Jonathan Kent ... Ferdinand, King of Navarre
Christopher Blake ... Longaville
Geoffrey Burridge ... Dumain
Mike Gwilym ... Berowne
David Warner ... Don Armado
John Kane ... Moth
Paul Jesson ... Costard
Frank Williams ... Dull
Paddy Navin ... Jaquenetta
Clifford Rose ... Boyet
Maureen Lipman ... The Princess of France
Katy Behean ... Maria
Petra Markham ... Katharine
Jenny Agutter ... Rosaline
Jay Ruparelia ... Adrian
John Burgess ... Sir Nathaniel
John Wells ... Holofernes
Valentine Dyall ... Marcade
Linda Kitchen ... Spring
Susanna Ross ... Winter

Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Produced: Shaun Sutton
Adapted: William Shakespeare’s original play
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William Shakespeare Hys Most Excellent and
Famous Comedie
LOVE’S
LABOUR’S LOST

ABOUT LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
The 1598 edition of Love’s Labour’s Lost is the first play text to carry Shakespeare’s name on the title page, which also refers to performance before the Queen ‘this last Christmas’.
The setting is Navarre – a kingdom straddling the border between Spain and France – where the young King and three of his friends vow to devote the following three years to austere self-improvement, forgoing the company of woman. But they have forgotten the imminent arrival on a diplomatic mission of the Princess of France with, as it happens, three of her ladies; . . . Shakespeare counterpoints the main action with contemporary events and he drew heavily upon the disciplines of the renowned ‘Commedia dell’arte’ which was popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

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