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- A messenger arrives to tell the Princess that her father has died, and she prepares to return to France. The women tell their suitors to seek them again in a year, and the play ends with their departure.
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The women tell their suitors to seek them again in a year, and the play ends with their departure. Previous section Act V, Scene ii. A short summary of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Love's Labour's Lost.
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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.
Berowne comments that their loves have not come to happy endings befitting of a comedy. Armado enters and says that there was supposed to be a song at the end of the performance of the Nine Worthies .
Overview. Synopsis. Characters. Scenes. Full Play. Quarto 1. Reviews. Documents. Plot Summary. The King of Navarre, and his three friends, Berowne, Longaville and Dumaine, all swear themselves to three years of study, abstaining from all distractions, particularly of the female kind, with only Armado, and Costard to entertain them.
William Shakespeare. Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598. Plot Summary. One of William Shakespeare’s early comedies, Love's Labour's Lost, follows four Spanish men’s attempts to resist the allure of four women. The title implies the difficulties and disappointments that often accompany the pursuit of romantic love.
by William Shakespeare. Summary. PDF Cite. Ferdinand, the king of Navarre, has taken a solemn vow and has forced three of his attending lords to take it also. They have sworn that for three years...
Naturally, Costard mixes the notes up, and the noble ladies—busy hunting—end up with Armado's ridiculous ode to Jaquenetta's "heroical vassal." Meanwhile, schoolmaster Holofernes and country preacher Nathaniel discuss the Princess's kill with Dull.
