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Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s — after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics. In this... read more
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Summary edit
In one of Shakespeare's earliest plays the King of Navarre and the Princess of France and their attendants meet, and the various couples fall in love over jesting and witty repartee. As the title suggests, however, love does not win in the end as the ladies return to France due to a tragedy... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Ferdinand: King of Navarre
- Princess of France: Add a description of this character.
- Berowne: attendant of the King of Navarre
- Katharine: attendant of the Princess of France
- Maria: One of the ladies attending the Princess of France
- Rosaline: One of the ladies attending the Princess of France
- Boyet: One of the lords attending the Princess of France
- Costard: a clown
- Don Adriano De Armado: a fantastical Spaniard
- Mote
- Dumaine: One of the 3 lords attending the King
- Hector: Part played by Armado
- Holofernes: a schoolmaster
- Marcade
- Jaquenetta: a country wench
- Judas Maccabaeus: A character played by Holofernes
- Longaville: One of the 3 lords attending the King
- Mercade: One of the lords attending the Princess of France
- Sir Nathaniel: A curate
- Dull: A constable
- Moth: Page to Armado
First Sentence edit
IN 1598, the year in which the earliest extant text we have of Love's Labour's Lost appeared in print, an emphatically minor poet, Robert Tofte, published his very long and very lugubrious work entitled Alba: The Month's Mind of a Melancholy Lover.
Table of Contents edit
I. Act I
1. Scene I. The king of Navarre's park
2. Scene II. The same
II. Act II
1. Scene I. The same
III. Act III.
1. Scene I. The same
IV. Act IV.
1. Scene I. The same
2. Scene II. The same
3. Scene III. The same
V. Act V.
1. Scene I. The same
2. Scene II. The same
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Shakespeare's Comedies. (community list)
This book is in Folger Shakespeare Library. (publisher edition list)
This book is in Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies. (publisher edition list)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1598
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 276
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1598
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 276
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 822.33
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Movie Connections edit
- Love's Labour's Lost (IMDb): (1965) TV Movie
- Love's Labour's Lost (IMDb): (1975) TV Movie by the BBC
- Love's Labour's Lost (IMDb): (1985) TV Movie.
- Love's Labour's Lost (IMDb): (2000) Modern musical version. Directed by Kenneth Brannagh.
- Love's Labour's Lost (IMDb): (2010) Recorded version by the Globe Theatre
- Liefdes loze les (IMDb): (1967) Belgian TV Movie
- Liebe leidet mit Lust (IMDb): (1973) German Language TV Movie
- Peines D'amour Perdues (IMDb): (1982) French Language TV Movie
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