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Let Us Once Lose Our Oaths to Find Ourselves
“Love’s Labour’s Lost is my favorite comedy, probably because unlike most of Shakespeare’s comedies, it does not end in marriage, but instead a promise to meet again. The show’s ending brings about the idea that nothing can last forever, but before it comes to a somber end, we get to experience the magic of falling in love. This show is about studying and language. It is filled will beautiful wordplay, wit, and rhetoric. It is hard not to relish in the lines that are written.”
Oft Have I Heard of You
“Rosaline has a little speech towards the end of 5.2, which happens to be the longest scene in the canon (one more reason to love the weirdness of this play), where she gives Berowne the what's-what about the shallow advances he's made toward her that have consisted mostly of his biting wit. It's a great speech about the nature of humor and how empty it can be if a comic uses his wit solely for his own purposes and not for those of his audience.”
Love is a Familiar; Love is a Devil
“I connect to Armado since he is a Clown who is filled with deep, bottomless emotion….But unlike other pieces by comedic characters, this monologue shows something more: that even clowns have that deep desire to feel love and connection.”