The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0861 Tuesday, 3 May 2005
[1] From: David Basch <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 01 May 2005 22:58:00 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 16.0845 Love's Labours Won
[2] From: Hannah Lemberg <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 2 May 2005 11:02:09 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 16.0845 Love's Labours Won
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From: David Basch <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Sunday, 01 May 2005 22:58:00 -0400
Subject: 16.0845 Love's Labours Won
Comment: Re: SHK 16.0845 Love's Labours Won
As usual, the list is very helpful in keeping details straight. While I
remembered "Jack has got his Jill," it was otherwise as spoken in LLL.
However, the very next line explains the success of love. It is only a
year's delay, made so by the "courtesy" of the ladies to spend a year in
mourning with the princess. So I am wrong in how I remembered the line
but right in how the play ended with successful love.
Here below is the pertinent dialogue from LLL:
BIRON Our wooing doth not end like an old play;
Jack hath not Jill: these ladies' courtesy
Might well have made our sport a comedy.
FERDINAND Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,
And then 'twill end.
BIRON That's too long for a play.
I thank Melvyn Leventhal for noting the line does occur in Midsummer
Night's Dream, which I recently read and saw in video. It explains to me
why the line had been so vivid.
David Basch
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From: Hannah Lemberg <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 2 May 2005 11:02:09 -0700
Subject: 16.0845 Love's Labours Won
Comment: Re: SHK 16.0845 Love's Labours Won
Dear Mr. Tyburn,
I am also interested in the opera version of Antony and Cleopatra, and I
don't believe I am the only one. Where/how does one "check it out"?
Thank you,
Hannah Lemberg
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