It only took us 4 years, but we have finally circled back to Love’s Labour’s Lost for a deep dive into what some fussy Victorians - Hazlitt and Tennyson - had to say about the play, plus a little bit about the moral implications of the ladies’ “homework” for the boys at the play’s conclusion. There also may or may not be some extensive bird walking into a little-known whodunit called The Moonstone #sorrynotsorry. We gossip a little and also deliver A Big Announcement About the Podcast.
Here’s what we featured in our Happy Hour segment:
Aubrey’s rec: Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race by Ian Smith
Jess’s rec: Anti-Racist Shakespeare edited by Ambereen Dadabhoy and Nedda Mehdizadeh
Here’s what we talked about in our ShakesBubble Gossip segment:
That dumb tweet about pronoun use in Shakespeare eye roll
Southwest Shakespeare’s LLL production runs March 24 & 30
LLL plays at the Stratford Festival from August 23- October 1
Asolo Rep’s LLL production runs April 4-23
