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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 contrast, modern criticism of Love’s Labor’s Lost has looked more closely at the play’s framing conception, along with its complex representations of gender and court politics, and has attempted to relate both structural form and ideological content to the play’s wit and romance. This wider view has led to several provocative modern ...
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Love's Labour's Lost Summary. After vowing to avoid women, the King and three of his friends have to host a princess and her three ladies. The four men fall in love and decide to court the women. In the end, the women must return to their kingdom for a year after which they will marry the king and his friends, providing they remain true to them ...
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. The 1598 quarto was printed seemingly from an.
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About. Love's Labour's Lost. Most scholars believe that this play was authored by Shakespeare, produced, and then revised and rewritten by Shakespeare for later performances. In one of the earliest references to the play, in the quarto of 1598, we find Love's Labour's Lost being referred to as "a pleasant comedy"; furthermore, we read that it ...
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. The King…
Analysis of the play, its performances, its date and sources, and its textual history; appendices on revisions, lineation, music, and the name of Armado's page. Discusses the ways in which the ...
