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Historian John Hale notes that the title could be read as "love's labour is lost" or "the lost labours of love" depending on punctuation. Hale suggests that this parallel nature of product and process was intended and is derived from existing Latin idioms.
By William C. Carroll. Love’s Labor’s Lost begins with the young King of Navarre anticipating the “disgrace of death,” when he and his courtiers will succumb to “cormorant devouring time” and become “heirs of all eternity” ( 1.1.3 –7); the play ends with the stunningly dramatic entrance of Marcade, whose brief “tale” ( 5.2 ...
Feb 6, 2024 · At first glance, Shakespeare’s early comedy Love’s Labor’s Lost simply entertains and amuses. Four young men (one of them a king) withdraw from the world for three years, taking an oath that they will have nothing to do with women.
Jul 31, 2015 · At first glance, Shakespeare's early comedy Love's Labor's Lost simply entertains and amuses. Four young men (one of them a king) withdraw from the world for three years, taking an oath that they will have nothing to do with women.
Love’s Labour’s Lost, early comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime between 1588 and 1597, more likely in the early 1590s, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a title page suggesting that an earlier quarto had been lost.
- David Bevington
Love’s Labour's Lost is a play by William Shakespeare that was likely written in the mid-1590s and was first published in 1598. The play follows the King of Navarre and three of his lords as they swear off women for three years of study, only to have their plans disrupted by the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies.
1598. Love’s Labor’s Lost, first edition: One of the first instances of Shakespeare's name on a title page. William Shakespeare's name first appeared on the title pages of three plays in 1598, including this edition of Love's Labor's Lost. Fourteen copies of this edition are known to survive. The sub-title, "Newly corrected and augmented By W. 1600
