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ISBN13: 9798677455384
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2020
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2020
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn. In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the Princess's father, and all weddings are delayed for a year. 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. While there are no obvious sources for the play's plot, the four main characters are loosely based on historical figures. The use of apostrophes in the play's title varies in early editions, though it is most commonly given as Love's Labour's Lost.
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