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Shakespeare enlightens me about human nature As part of the RSC's Complete Works Festival Washington DC's Shakespeare Theatre Company is presenting Love's Labour's Lost at Stratford's Swan Theatre from August 17 - 26. Director Michael Kahn spoke to us about the play. Theatre
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Q Can you tell us a little bit about the production?
A The play is not only an investigation and, in part, satire on
language, it also uses a set of fashionable people to illustrate
societal conventions. Many scholars surmise that the characters in
Love's Labour's Lost are based in part on figures from the Earl of
Southampton's circle.
In looking for an equivalent, I was struck by this idea of
fashionable, successful, young men going in search of spiritual
enlightenment in a pa...
