Gary Smith

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It is not easy to respect this production but none of this Director's plays relating to Shakespeare are satisfactory to watch.. This Director and Actor is not an Englishman. As for the Play it is great encapsulation of very early Shakespeare. He wrote only to make a living like Fred Astaire danced to make a buck. The play was very timely to see in late 1590s. The European aspect on English life and continental relations with London is always there. It is a serious mistake to jettison it but Brexiteers seem unlikely to know or be interested in Shakespeare who had a vast understanding of the human condition. He must have travelled a lot observing life's rich tapestry along the way.

Love's Labour's Lost

Excellent. A sound understanding of exact problems and ordinary life in England in a mid Victorian decade. Most interesting is the point that the notion of EMPIRE was not around 1841 to 1851 and that the big issue was the Corn Laws and the power of the Church as the detailed situation on REligion is simply fasinating. Nonconformity challenged the Church which was pretty stolid and even Mormons established their religion in England. The consequenses of suddenindustrial growth remained many decades to come. World War 1 of curse ended the British hegemony. Pity the book is about England and not all of UK.

The Age of Paradox: A Biography of England, 1841-1851