Editing Love's Labour's Lost (section)

==Adaptations==

===Literature===
[[File:Globe stage (997806416).jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|right|Start of a performance of ''Love's Labour's Lost'' at [[Shakespeare's Globe]], London]]
[[Alfred Tennyson]]'s poem ''[[The Princess (Tennyson poem)|The Princess]]'' (and, by extension, [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s comic opera ''[[Princess Ida]]'') is speculated by Gerhard Joseph to have been inspired by ''Love's Labour's Lost''.<ref>{{cite book| last=Joseph|first=Gerhard|title=Tennysonian Love: The Strange Diagonal|year=1969|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|isbn=978-0-8166-5800-8|page=79}}</ref>

[[Thomas Mann]] in his novel ''[[Doctor Faustus (novel)|Doctor Faustus]]'' (1943) has the fictional German composer Adrian Leverkühn attempt to write an opera on the story of the play.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Blackmur|first=R.P.|title=Parody and Critique: Notes on Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus|journal=The Kenyon Review|year=1950|volume=12|issue=1|page=20}}</ref>

=== Musical theatre, opera, and plays ===

An [[Love's Labour's Lost (opera)|opera of the same title]] as the play was composed by [[Nicolas Nabokov]], with a libretto by [[W. H. Auden]] and [[Chester Kallman]], and first performed in 1973.

In the summer of 2013, [[The Public Theater]] in New York City presented a musical adaptation of the play as part of their [[Shakespeare in the Park]] programming. This production marked the first new Shakespeare-based musical to be produced at the [[Delacorte Theater]] in [[Central Park]] since the 1971 mounting of ''[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' with music by [[Galt MacDermot]]. The adaptation of ''Love's Labour's Lost'' featured a score by ''[[Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson]]'' collaborators [[Michael Friedman (composer)|Michael Friedman]] and [[Alex Timbers]]. Timbers also directed the production, which starred [[Daniel Breaker]], [[Colin Donnell]], [[Rachel Dratch]], and Patti Murin, among others.<ref name=Hetrick>{{cite news| last=Hetrick| first=Adam| title=Shakespeare in the Park Musical Adaptation of ''Love's Labour's Lost'' Premieres July 23| url=https://www.playbill.com/article/shakespeare-in-the-park-musical-adaptation-of-loves-labours-lost-premieres-july-23-com-207504| access-date=5 January 2022| newspaper=Playbill| date=23 July 2013| df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The 2004 [[ska]] musical ''[[The Big Life (musical)|The Big Life]]'' is based on ''Love's Labour's Lost'', reworked to be about the [[Windrush generation]] arriving in London.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/apr/18/theatre1|title=Reach for the ska|last=Ojumu|first=Akin|date=2004-04-17|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-03-01|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Marc Palmieri's 2015 play ''The Groundling'',<ref>Palmieri, Marc (2015). ''The Groundling''. New York: Dramatists Play Service. {{ISBN|978-0-8222-3347-3}}.</ref> a farce the ''[[New York Times]]'' referred to as "half comedy and half tragedy", was billed as a "meditation on the meaning of the final moments of ''Love's Labour's Lost''".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/theater/review-the-groundling-a-backstage-farce-with-heartbreak.html|title=Review: ''The Groundling'', a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak|first=Alexis|last=Soloski|date=20 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722085404/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/theater/review-the-groundling-a-backstage-farce-with-heartbreak.html|archive-date=22 July 2017|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

===Film, television and radio===
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[[Kenneth Branagh]]'s [[Love's Labour's Lost (film)|2000 film adaptation]] relocated the setting to the 1930s and attempted to make the play more accessible by turning it into a musical. The film was a box office disappointment.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=loveslabourslost.htm "''Love's Labour's Lost''"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103131817/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=loveslabourslost.htm |date=3 November 2013 }}, Box Office Mojo, accessed 7 December 2013</ref>

The play was one of the last works to be recorded for the [[BBC Television Shakespeare]] project, broadcast in 1985. The production set events in the eighteenth century, the costumes and sets being modeled on the paintings of [[Jean-Antoine Watteau]]. This was the only instance in the project of a work set in a period after Shakespeare's death.<ref>Martin Wiggins, The (BBC DVD) Shakespeare Collection: Viewing Notes (booklet included with the DVD box-set)</ref> The play is featured in an episode of the British TV show, ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The episode, entitled ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'', focuses on Shakespeare himself and a hypothetical follow-up play, ''Love's Labour's Won'', whose final scene is used as a portal for alien witches to invade Earth. All copies of this play disappear along with the witches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-3-2007/302-the-shakespeare-code|title=Episode 302, The Shakespeare Code|work=Dr. Who TV|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023165332/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-3-2007/302-the-shakespeare-code|archive-date=23 October 2013|date=22 September 2009}}</ref>

BBC Radio 3 aired a radio adaptation on 16 December 1946, directed by Noel Illif, with music by [[Gerald Finzi]] scored for a small chamber orchestra. The cast included [[Paul Scofield]]. The music was subsequently converted into an orchestral suite.<ref>A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection. Sanders, Julie. ''Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings'', Cambridge, UK 2007</ref> BBC Radio 3 aired another radio adaptation on 22 February 1979, directed by David Spenser, with music by Derek Oldfield. The cast included [[Michael Kitchen]] as Ferdinand; [[John McEnery]] as Berowne; [[Anna Massey]] as the Princess of France; [[Eileen Atkins]] as Rosaline; and [[Paul Scofield]] as Don Adriano.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71567|title=Love's Labour's Lost|work=British Universities Film & Video Council|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20131112095028/http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71567|archive-date=12 November 2013}}</ref>

A modern-language adaptation of the play, titled ''Groups of Ten or More People'', was released online by [[Chicago]]-based company Littlebrain Theatre in July 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Littlebrain-Theatre-Announces-Original-Filmed-Play-GROUPS-OF-TEN-OR-MORE-PEOPLE-20200626|title=Littlebrain Theatre Announces Original Filmed Play|work=Broadway World Chicago}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Gp1PXYgU0b0 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200719110238/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp1PXYgU0b0 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp1PXYgU0b0|title=Groups of Ten or More People (2020)|work=YouTube|date=10 July 2020 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> This adaptation, set during the early days of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], was filmed entirely over the digital conferencing program [[Zoom (software)|Zoom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node%2F8591&fbclid=IwAR33-gapB3bez7NAjD6W474z45JkRpecjimDuIbepyokN7hUZ25Rcqc00GQ|title=Groups of Ten or More People|work=Total Theatre}}</ref>