Love's Labours Lost, UCB 1977: the King of Navarre and the Princess with her Ladies.

This play gives women the upper hand over all their male conterparts at all times. Thus in one of his first plays Shakespeare rejects a patriarchal image of society, in France at least. The elaborate Valois costumes require 16th c. manners to carry them off effectively, a unique learning experience for modern students! UCB photo, by Velma Bourgeois Richmond.