Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 31 IS - no. 3 T2 - Shakespeare Bulletin SP - 453-83 ID - bbbc683 T1 - "Interrogating Escapism: Rethinking Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost" AU - Severn, John R PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - musical KW - pastiche KW - escapism LA - English AB - Responding to the negative reception of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labor's Lost (q.v.) as little more than a Hollywood film musical by arguing "that the film is more productively approached in terms of pasticcio and pastiche than recreation or revivial" and that "the film invites . . . an interrogation of escapism." ER -