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Love's Labours Lost Part 2 - The Characters
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Part 2 discusses both the play’s humor and its serious engagement with Renaissance culture, especially the humanist-style program of education that the lords pursue. This Renaissance model inspired many of the educational programs we continue today, but as the episode discusses, the play questions what goals lie behind the Renaissance ideal: does it pursue sympathy, knowledge, or power? The episode also charts the male characters’ moral failures and growth, and how the play treats marriage more seriously than many comedies do by refusing to end with marriage.
Released:
Jul 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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