Fun for the groundlings

Leaphia Darko as Lady Katherine, attending to the Princess of France
Photo: Marc Brenner

For much of its existence, Love’s Labour’s Lost was more lost than loved by British theatre. The only Shakespeare text not to have been staged at all in the eighteenth century, it has continued to be considered the most problematic of his “problem plays”.

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