But as soon as they’ve signed the contract, the Princess of France and her three pals show up to meet with the King. In Love’s Labor’s Lost, the King of Navarre and his three friends vow to spend three years cloistered from the world, studying, fasting, and seeing no women. – Love’s Labor’s Lost, Act 4, scene 3, lines 328 – 339 Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.Īnd when love speaks, the voice of all the gods When the suspicious head of theft is stopped. “A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.Ī lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound, He defines such a union as unalterable and eternal.” Berowne (Zachary Fine) professes his love for Rosaline (Kelsey Rainwater) in “Love’s Labor’s Lost.” With Yesenia Iglesias, Chani Wereley, Tonya Beckman, Amelia Pedlow. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, editors of The Folger Shakespeare, wrote of this famous sonnet, “The poet here meditates on what he sees as the truest and strongest kind of love, that between minds. In an interview on Shakespeare Unlimited, Folger Director Emerita Gail Kern Paster noted that Sonnet 116 is a frequent choice for wedding toasts. That looks on tempests and is never shaken.” Neuer before imprinted.” William Shakespeare. What does Shakespeare have to say about love? Let’s start with the basics. ⇒ Related: Read, search, and download all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems for free with The Folger Shakespeare. Add to that 59 instances of “ beloved” and 133 uses of “lov ing” and you’ve got yourself a “whole lotta love.” So, what does Shakespeare have to say about the subject? Here are 20 quotations from the Bard about love.

The word “love” appears 2,146 times in Shakespeare’s collected works (including a handful of “loves” and “loved”). Orlando (Lorenzo Roberts) and Rosalind (Lindsay Alexandra Carter) flirt in the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” Folger Theatre, 2017.

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