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Braunmuller, A.; Orgel, Stephen; Shakespeare, William

 
9780140714777: Love's Labor's Lost (Revised Edition) (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140714774 ISBN 13: 9780140714777
Verlag: Penguin, 2000

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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
 
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.
 
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
 

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

A. R. Braunmuller is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on English and European drama from 1500 to the present. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love poetry in English. Shakespeare died in Stratford in 1616.

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Love's Labor's Lost

¥    I.1 Enter Ferdinand King of Navarre, Berowne, Longaville, and Dumaine.

king

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,

Live registered upon our brazen tombs

2

And then grace us in the disgrace of death,

3

When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,

4

Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy

5

That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge

6

And make us heirs of all eternity.

Therefore, brave conquerors-for so you are

That war against your own affections

9

And the huge army of the world's desires-

10

Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:

11

Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;

Our court shall be a little academe,

13

Still and contemplative in living art.

14

You three-Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville-

Have sworn for three years' term to live with me

My fellow scholars, and to keep those statutes

That are recorded in this schedule here.

18

Your oaths are passed; and now subscribe your names,

19

That his own hand may strike his honor down

20

That violates the smallest branch herein.

21

If you are armed to do as sworn to do,

22

Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.

longaville

I am resolved. 'Tis but a three years' fast.

The mind shall banquet though the body pine.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits

26

Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.

dumaine

My loving lord, Dumaine is mortified.

28

The grosser manner of these world's delights

He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves.

30

To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die,

With all these living in philosophy.

32

berowne

I can but say their protestation over.

33

So much, dear liege, I have already sworn,

34

That is, to live and study here three years.

But there are other strict observances:

As not to see a woman in that term,

Which I hope well is not enrolld there;

38

And one day in a week to touch no food,

And but one meal on every day beside,

40

The which I hope is not enrolld there;

And then to sleep but three hours in the night,

And not be seen to wink of all the day

43

(When I was wont to think no harm all night

44

And make a dark night too of half the day),

Which I hope well is not enrolld there.

O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep-

Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep.

king

Your oath is passed to pass away from these.

berowne

Let me say no, my liege, an if you please.

50

I only swore to study with your grace

And stay here in your court for three years' space.

longaville

You swore to that, Berowne, and to the rest.

berowne

By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.

54

What is the end of study, let me know?

king

Why, that to know which else we should not know.

berowne

Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?

57

king

Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.

berowne

Come on then, I will swear to study so,

59

To know the thing I am forbid to know,

60

As thus-to study where I well may dine

 When I to feast expressly am forbid;

Or study where to meet some mistress fine

 When mistresses from common sense are hid;

Or having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath,

Study to break it and not break my troth.

If study's gain be thus, and this be so,

Study knows that which yet it doth not know.

68

Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.

king

These be the stops that hinder study quite,

70

And train our intellects to vain delight.

71

berowne

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain

72

Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:

73

As, painfully to pore upon a book,

 To seek the light of truth, while truth the while

Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

76

 Light seeking light doth light of light beguile;

77

So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,

Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

79

Study me how to please the eye indeed,

80

 By fixing it upon a fairer eye,

81

Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed,

82

 And give him light that it was blinded by.

83

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,

 That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:

85

Small have continual plodders ever won,

 Save base authority from others' books.

These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights,

88

 That give a name to every fixd star,

Have no more profit of their shining nights

90

 Than those that walk and wot not what they are.

91

Too much to know is to know nought but fame;

92

And every godfather can give a name.

93

king

How well he's read to reason against reading!

94

dumaine

Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!

95

longaville

He weeds the corn, and still lets grow the weeding.

96

berowne

The spring is near, when green geese are a-breeding.

97

dumaine

How follows that?

98

berowne     Fit in his place and time.

dumaine

In reason nothing.

99

berowne     Something then in rhyme.

king

Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost

100

That bites the first-born infants of the spring.

101

berowne

Well, say I am; why should proud summer boast

102

Before the birds have any cause to sing?

Why should I joy in any abortive birth?

At Christmas I no more desire a rose

Than wish a snow in May's newfangled shows,

But like of each thing that in season grows.

107

So you, to study now it is too late,

108

Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.

109

king

Well, sit you out. Go home, Berowne. Adieu.

110

berowne

No, my good lord, I have sworn to stay with you;

And though I have for barbarism spoke more

112

 Than for that angel knowledge you can say,

Yet confident I'll keep what I have sworn,

 And bide the penance of each three years' day.

115

Give me the paper, let me read the same,

And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.

king [Handing over the paper]

How well this yielding rescues thee from shame!

berowne [Reads.] "Item: that no woman shall come within a mile of my court-" Hath this been proclaimed?

120

longaville Four days ago.

berowne Let's see the penalty. "-on pain of losing her tongue." Who devised this penalty?

longaville

Marry, that did I.

124

berowne     Sweet lord, and why?

longaville

To fright them hence with that dread penalty.

berowne

A dangerous law against gentility!

126

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140714774
ISBN 13 
9780140714777
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