Theater Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 51st season opened with Love’s Labour’s Lost on an idyllic night under the stars, and fully lives up to the dreamy setting and the elegant and flowery style of the play’s romantic sentiments.

When John Lyly, one of the writers employed by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, published Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580), a brief, but lively, era of ornate and sophisticated literary style  was ushered in, engendering the English novel. This florid herald of the coming Baroque period of the Renaissance, a few decades hence, immediately spilled over onto the English stage with the early performances of Love’s Labour’s Lost, performed at the court of Elizabeth I.

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