Shakespeare and France - Love's Labours Lost - SAT 2014

leanpub.shakespeare. Presentation on Love's Labours Lost for the Shakespearean Authorship Trust annual conference, London, 23 November 2014. With Mark Rylance and Sir Derek Jacobi.

[@anthonymccarthy4164]

I could never get into that play, I always figured it was just a silly play with an absurd plot. Now I'm going to have to go back and study it again. If anyone wonders why the authorship question is important, it's things like this conference that shows why it is.

[@khi590]

Very interesting to present SAT lectures for those who could not attend, here Emma Jolly on ''Love’s Labour’s Lost and the court of Henry of Navarre'' “Truth exceeds the scope of fiction, and it is Shakespeare’s genius to have copied, not invented, such psychologies.”

[@nicholasennos4431]

I believe that Love's Labours Lost was written by Ferdinando Lord Strange, 5th Earl of Derby. He had his own acting troupe and Marlowe was his servant, I believe he wrote all of Marlowe's plays. It was written at the time that Marlowe "took name for his Lord". Other plays of Ferdinando were included in the Shakespeare canon, such as Love's Labours Lost. He was known for his blank verse "mightly line" which is very different in style to Edward de Vere's use of repetition and referring back to previous lines. Ferdinando was a friend of Edward de Vere who also had his own acting troupe. Ferdinando was the main Catholic claimant and it is possible that he was assassinated by Elizabeth and her nobility for having a connection with a plot to overthrow Elizabeth. I see Ferdinando as being Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play, and Edward de Vere representing Brutus. Julius Caesar is represented as an eagle, the symbol of Ferdinando's family, the Earls of Derby.