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The play draws on themes of masculine love and desire, reckoning and rationalisation, and reality versus fantasy. Though first published in quarto in 1598, the play's title page suggests a revision of an earlier version of the play. There are no obvious sources for the play's plot. The use of apostrophes in the play's title varies in early ...
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 ...
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Alvin B. Kernan. 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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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” () announces the death of the old King of France, and with the futile efforts of ...
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 · Act 1, scene 1. The King of Navarre and his lords vow to retire from the world (especially from women) and study for three years. One of the lords, Berowne, reminds the King that the Princess of France is coming and that they will thus have to break their oaths immediately. Constable Dull arrives with a letter from Don Armado accusing a servant ...
Feb 6, 2024 · About Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost. An introduction to the plot, themes, and characters in the play. Reading Shakespeare’s Language. A guide for understanding Shakespeare’s words, sentences, and wordplay. An Introduction to This Text. A description of the publishing history of the play and our editors’ approach to this edition.
