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A review by steven_nobody
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
1.0
A confusing comedy. The language of the play is too highfalutin’ for me.
The highlight is Armado, a Spaniard whose accent and badly chosen words is a great source of amusement. Shakespeare has one of his funniest jokes:
I agree with poet Alexander Pope who wrote in 1743, “Love’s Labour’s Lost is the worst of his plays.” It certainly has made me think that maybe I needn’t read every play Shakespeare wrote.
The highlight is Armado, a Spaniard whose accent and badly chosen words is a great source of amusement. Shakespeare has one of his funniest jokes:
Sir, the king is a noble gentleman, and my familiar. . . . for I must tell thee it will please his grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder, and with his royal finger thus dally with my excrement, with my mustachio.
I agree with poet Alexander Pope who wrote in 1743, “Love’s Labour’s Lost is the worst of his plays.” It certainly has made me think that maybe I needn’t read every play Shakespeare wrote.