Shakespearean spoiler alerts
2 June 2016
Even if – like most people – you have no interest in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost, you probably are pretty clear what will happen immediately after the play’s King and his three noblemen vow to give up on women. Yep: enter a foxy Princess and her three ladies in waiting.
Hertford’s Emma Smith discusses the lack of suspense in Shakespeare’s plotting in a BBC Radio 3 Essay recorded at the Hay Festival and broadcast on 3 June at 10.45pm.