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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Love'S Labour'S Lost by William Shakespeare , Edited by William C. Carroll
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. Edited and introduced by William C. Carroll, this edition of Loves Labour Lost features a lively account of the plays performance history from 1632 to the present day. Stage and screen productions of the late twentieth century receive particular attention and a range of international performances are also explored. New trends in the scholarly criticism are discussed in the introduction, as are the plays sources and historical contexts. Carrolls text is freshly edited from the First Quarto, published in 1598, and presents a highly readable modernised edition of Loves Labour Lost; a play known for its unorthodox ending and extraordinary use of language.show more