Loves Labour's Lost Analysis: Act I.
Vocabulary:
cormorant- a greedy person
vicegerent- officer appointed as deputy by sovereign or supreme chief
tharborough- constable
minstrelsy- musical instruments
In Act I, I find this play to be sort of funny. You got to love dramas. I find this play funny because of the major hypocrisy when the four men and King Navarre commit themselves to academics, restraining themselves from three normal meals a day, getting more than three hours of sleep, and staying away from women. This Acadame they call it, is a no woman zone for anybody working for the king. As you keep reading, you know the men are not happy about this rule. Biron especially doesn't like this rule, but signs the paper anyway. Costad, the king's joker, breaks the rule by falling for the maid Jaquenetta. This becomes a big soap opera because it turns out that Don Adriano is also head over heels in love with her too. He uses his deep poetry to show his love for Jaquenetta. This is pretty funny because there are two guys who love her, but Don Adriano is having trouble deciding whether Jaquenetta is really his true love and if she is worth more to him than being a scholar. So like in many coming-of- the age comedies, usually one guy decides to hinder the other guy from getting the girl. Don Adriano tells King Navarre that Costad had broken the no woman rule, and now he will be punished. I think that we would find this more funny if we were used to comprehending the special language that shakespeare wrote in his plays. Maybe centuries back, like in the rennaisance we would see this play and think it was hilarious.
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