** Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is performed at the Theatre Royal.

Later top 20 hits included 1970's " One Less Bell to Answer " ( U. S. # 2 ), 1971's " Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes " ( U. S. # 19 ) and " Never My Love " ( U. S. # 12 ) ( 1971 ), 1972's "( Last Night ) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All " ( U. S. # 8 ) and " If I Could Reach You " ( U. S. # 10 ).

Tracks include " Boots of Chinese Plastic ", " Don't Cut Your Hair ", " Love's a Mystery ", " The Last Ride " and " Almost Perfect ".

The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift, or, Virtue Rewarded.

In Cibber's Love's Last Shift, a free-living Restoration rake is brought to repentance and reform by the ruses of his wife, while in The Relapse, the rake succumbs again to temptation and has a new love affair.

One such actor was Colley Cibber himself, who played the luxuriant fop Lord Foppington in both Love's Last Shift and The Relapse.

Unlike Love's Last Shift, never again performed after the 1690s, The Relapse has retained its audience appeal.

Love's Last Shift is one of the first illustrations of a massive shift in audience taste, away from the analytic bent and sexual frankness of Restoration comedy and towards the conservative certainties and gender role backlash of exemplary or sentimental comedy.

In fact it has a kind of parallel structure to Love's Last Shift: in the climactic scene of Cibber's play, Amanda's virtue reforms her husband, and in the corresponding scene of The Relapse, it reforms her admirer Worthy.

Love's Last Shift is the story of a last " shift " or trick that a virtuous wife, Amanda, is driven to in order to reform and retain her rakish husband Loveless.

Combining daring sex scenes with sentimental reconciliations and Sir Novelty's buffoonery, Love's Last Shift offered something for everybody, and was a great box-office hit.

Vanbrugh's The Relapse is less sentimental and more analytical than Love's Last Shift, subjecting both the reformed husband and the virtuous wife to fresh temptations, and having them react with more psychological realism.

Love's Last Shift had been cast from the remnants of the Patent Company —" learners " and " boys and girls "— after the walkout of the stars.

The Love's Last Shift cast list.

To cast Love's Last Shift in January 1696, the Patent Company had to make the best use of such actors as remained after the 1694 split ( see cast list right ).

They were of course used in Love's Last Shift, with John playing Loveless, the male lead, and his wife Susanna the flirtatious heiress Narcissa, a secondary character.

Throughout the " seduction " tug-of-war between Rich and Betterton in 1695 – 96, Powell remained at Drury Lane, where he was in fact not used for Love's Last Shift, but would instead spectacularly demonstrate his drinking problem at the première of The Relapse.

To reinforce the connection with Love's Last Shift and capitalize on its unexpected success, Vanbrugh designed the central roles of Loveless, Amanda, and Sir Novelty for the same actors: John Verbruggen, Jane Rogers, and Colley Cibber.

Hildebrand Horden, who had played a " wild " young lover in Love's Last Shift, was the only young, handsome, potential romantic lead Rich had.

After the success of Love's Last Shift, his status was transformed, with both companies vying for his services as actor and playwright.

Vanbrugh's play incorporates some of the ad-libbing and affectations of Cibber's by all accounts inspired performance in Love's Last Shift.

* John Vanbrugh-The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger ( a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift )

An example of the so-called Frenchified fop is Sir Novelty Fashion in Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift ( 1696 ).

D ' Urfey's ' Love for Money ( 1691 ) and Cibber's Love's Last Shift ( 1696 ) are moralizing plays and pave the way for the sentimental comedy of the early eighteenth century.

* Amanda, in Colley Cibber's comedy play Love's Last Shift and its sequel by John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, both from 1696

Yet, by the end of the 17th century, the Restoration comic style had collapsed: the satiric presentation of English life gave way to the sentimental portrait ( beginning in 1696 with Colley Cibber ’ s Love's Last Shift ) ( Bernbaum 72 ).

Former Hole guitarist Erlandson stated in Spin magazine that contractually no reunion can take place without his involvement ; therefore Nobody's Daughter would remain Love's solo record, as opposed to a " Hole " record.

Eric Erlandson stated in a Spin magazine that contractually no reunion can take place without his involvement, therefore Nobody's Daughter would remain Love's solo record, as opposed to a " Hole " record.

She even told Belle that true Love's kiss will break any curse so she can take away Rumplestiltskin's powers.

Collected articles can be found in A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity, translated by Matthew Ashley and in John K. Downey, ed., Love's Strategy: The Political Theology of Johann Baptist Metz.

During the day, Shrek realises that a loophole will negate the deal if he can receive a True Love's kiss from Fiona.

A play mentioned by Francis Meres, Love's Labour's Won, is believed by some to be a sequel to this play.

Hole was thought to be on hiatus in 1996, due to Love's rising movie career which skyrocketed when she landed a lead role in The People vs. Larry Flynt ( 1996 ).

In order to release the " Dream of Me " track as an OMD single, however, McCluskey had to agree that the single release of the track would remove the actual " Love's Theme " sample, but still be officially titled " Dream of Me ( Based on Love's Theme )", and furthermore would still give sole writing credit to White.

The RSC gave her the opportunity to play many of the Shakespearean heroines, including Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and her Cleopatra, magisterial, ardent and seductive, in 1973, about which critics raved, and which is said to be a definitive performance.

From that period, he was familiar with Harley Granville-Barker's famous essay arguing that Love's Labour's Lost could be treated as highly stylized, with the dialogue and action treated with an almost musical sense of rhythm.

However, similar duplications appear in Julius Caesar and Love's Labour's Lost and are generally thought to be examples of two versions being printed when only one was ultimately used in production, which could easily be the case here.

With garage leanings, Love's first two albums Love ( 1966 ) and in particular Da Capo ( 1967 ), began developing a proto-punk sound with songs such as " 7 and 7 Is "; which happened to be their only hit single.

The Folio includes all of the plays generally accepted to be Shakespeare's, with the exception of Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Two Noble Kinsmen, and the two " lost plays ", Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won.

These are two sonnets, later to be published in the 1609 collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, and three poems extracted from the play Love's Labour's Lost.

On Guestroom, the band moves easily between decades and countries, jumping from 80 ’ s classics like The Cure's " Let's Go to Bed " and the House Of Love's " I Don't Know Why I Love You " to Steely Dan's " Only a Fool Would Say That " and then over to Serge Gainsbourg's " L ' Anamour " ( which previously could be found as a b-side on " I've Got a Feeling " single ); from The Ronettes ' early 1960s classic " Be My Baby " to Papas Fritas ' late 1990s gem " Say Goodbye ".

Later writers have sometimes argued that while Chester's Love's Martyr may be intended to celebrate the couple, Shakespeare's own poem does not.

It dramatises the bourgeois world seen in Ibsen's later naturalistic prose problem plays but Love's Comedy elevates its characters to an emblematic status, more akin to Emperor and Galilean, Brand or Peer Gynt ; characters appear to be contemporary types but are given emblematic names such as Falcon, Swan, Strawman and Gold.

She is surprised that " True Love's Form " isn't as beautiful as she thought it would be, but Shrek still thinks she is beautiful.

* Part One — Topics include: Love's Hidden Life and Its Recognisability by its Fruits, You Shall Love, You Shall Love Your Neighbour, Love is the Fulfilling of the Law, Love is a Matter of Conscience, Our Duty to Love Those We See, and Our Duty to be in the Debt of Love to Each Other

The 49th season in 2012 will be Love's Labour's Lost, and in 2013 their 50th Season will be celebrated with A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pericles

Some authorities proclaim it to be the first disco song to hit # 1, while others give that distinction to " Love's Theme " by Love Unlimited Orchestra, a chart-topper from earlier in 1974.