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Article: Love's Labor's Lost. (Public Theater, New York)
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- The Nation
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- April 3, 1989
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There is no better illustration of that moral than Shakespeare's own work, and the Public Theater (bless it) has once again mounted an inspired production of one of his comedies. Love's Labor's Lost is the seventh play in the Public's projected six-year-marathon, the fourth I've seen, and it vies with A Midsummer Night's Dream as my favorite. The hero of the occasion is undoubtedly the director, Gerald Freedman, who has been responsible for many of the Nely York Shakespeare Festival's most notable productions, from Hair in 1967 to last summer's Much Ado About Nothing in Central Park. He's done it again. I can't imagine a more felicitous staging of this play, which ...