Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard
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You have no idea what this one’s about, do you? Great title though.
Would you believe this romantic comedy about four nobles trying to become celibate scholars actually holds up quite well? Would you believe it has some of Shakespeare’s feistiest heroines? Would you believe it has one of his most realistic depictions of causal romance?
Well, you’re just going have to listen to find out.
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Sources:
The Oxford Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Oxford University Press)
Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, edited by Brian Vickers (Routledge)
Peter Ackroyd, Shakespeare: The Biography (Vintage)
Johnathan Bate, How the Classics Made Shakespeare (Princeton)
Anna Beer, The Life of the Author, William Shakespeare (Wiley Blackwell)
Peter Levi, The Life and Times of William Shakespeare (Henry Holt & Co)
Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (Oxford University Press)
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