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href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marn%C3%A1_l%C3%A1sky_snaha" title="Marná lásky snaha – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Marná lásky snaha" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost" title="Love's Labour's Lost – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Love's Labour's Lost" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlorene_Liebesm%C3%BCh" title="Verlorene Liebesmüh – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Verlorene Liebesmüh" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li 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data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stracone_zachody_mi%C5%82o%C5%9Bci" title="Stracone zachody miłości – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Stracone zachody miłości" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost" title="Love's Labour's Lost – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Love's Labour's Lost" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadarnicele_chinuri_ale_dragostei" title="Zadarnicele chinuri ale dragostei – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Zadarnicele chinuri ale dragostei" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%B2%D0%B8" title="Бесплодные усилия любви – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Бесплодные усилия любви" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost" title="Love's Labour's Lost – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" 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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Love's Labour's Lost (disambiguation)">Love's Labour's Lost (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Loves_labours_tp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Loves_labours_tp.jpg/220px-Loves_labours_tp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="340" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Loves_labours_tp.jpg/330px-Loves_labours_tp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Loves_labours_tp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="556" /></a><figcaption>Title page of the first <a href="/wiki/Quarto" title="Quarto">quarto</a> (1598)</figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>Love's Labour's Lost</b></i> is one of <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the <a href="/wiki/Inns_of_Court" title="Inns of Court">Inns of Court</a> before <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Queen Elizabeth I</a>. It follows the King of <a href="/wiki/Navarre" title="Navarre">Navarre</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and her ladies makes them forsworn (break their oath). 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. </p><p>Though first published in <a href="/wiki/Quarto" title="Quarto">quarto</a> 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 editions, though it is most commonly given as <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>. </p><p>Shakespeare's audiences were familiar with the historical personages portrayed and the political situation in Europe relating to the setting and action of the play. Scholars suggest the play lost popularity as these historical and political portrayals of Navarre's court became dated and less accessible to theatergoers of later generations. The play's sophisticated wordplay, pedantic humour and dated literary allusions may also be causes for its relative obscurity, as compared with Shakespeare's more popular works. <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> was rarely staged in the 19th century, but it has been seen more often in the 20th and 21st centuries, with productions by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">National Theatre</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Stratford_Festival_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Stratford Festival of Canada">Stratford Festival of Canada</a>, among others. It has also been adapted as a musical, an opera, for radio and television and as a <a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_(2000_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Love's Labour's Lost (2000 film)">musical film</a>. </p><p><i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> features the longest scene (5.2), the longest single word '<a href="/wiki/Honorificabilitudinitatibus" title="Honorificabilitudinitatibus">honorificabilitudinitatibus</a>' (5.1.39–40), and (depending on editorial choices) the longest speech (4.3.284–361) in all of Shakespeare's plays (see "Date and Text" below). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col div-col-rules" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li>Ferdinand – King of <a href="/wiki/Navarre" title="Navarre">Navarre</a></li> <li>Lord Berowne (or Biron), Lord Longueville (or Longaville) and Lord Dumaine – attending on the King</li> <li>Princess of France, later Queen of France</li> <li>Lady Rosaline, Lady Maria, Lady Katharine and Boyet – attending on the Princess</li> <li>Marcadé – messenger</li> <li>Don Adriano de Armado – a fantastical Spaniard</li> <li>Moth – Armado's <a href="/wiki/Page_(occupation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Page (occupation)">page</a></li> <li>Sir Nathaniel – <a href="/wiki/Curate" title="Curate">curate</a></li> <li>Holofernes – schoolmaster</li> <li>Dull – <a href="/wiki/Constable" title="Constable">constable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costard" title="Costard">Costard</a> – a rustic</li> <li>Jaquenetta – country wench</li> <li>Forester</li> <li>Officers and others, attendants on the King and Princess</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ferdinand, King of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Navarre" title="Kingdom of Navarre">Navarre</a>, and his three noble companions, the Lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville, take an oath not to give in to the company of women. They devote themselves to three years of study and fasting; Berowne agrees somewhat more hesitantly than the others. The King declares that no woman should come within a mile of the court. Don Adriano de Armado, a Spaniard visiting the court, writes a letter to tell the King of a tryst between <a href="/wiki/Costard" title="Costard">Costard</a> and Jaquenetta. After the King sentences Costard, Don Armado confesses his own love for Jaquenetta to his page, Moth. Don Armado writes Jaquenetta a letter and asks Costard to deliver it. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%22Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%22,_Act_IV,_Scene_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/%22Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%22%2C_Act_IV%2C_Scene_3.jpg/241px-%22Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%22%2C_Act_IV%2C_Scene_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="241" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/%22Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%22%2C_Act_IV%2C_Scene_3.jpg/362px-%22Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%22%2C_Act_IV%2C_Scene_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/%22Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%22%2C_Act_IV%2C_Scene_3.jpg/483px-%22Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%22%2C_Act_IV%2C_Scene_3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1639" /></a><figcaption> <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>, Act IV, Scene 3, by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Stothard" title="Thomas Stothard">Thomas Stothard</a> (c. 1800)</figcaption></figure> <p>The Princess of France and her ladies arrive, wishing to speak to the King regarding the cession of <a href="/wiki/Aquitaine" title="Aquitaine">Aquitaine</a>, but must ultimately make their camp outside the court due to the decree. In visiting the Princess and her ladies at their camp, the King falls in love with the Princess, as do the lords with the ladies. Berowne gives Costard a letter to deliver to the lady Rosaline, which Costard switches with Don Armado's letter that was meant for Jaquenetta. Jaquenetta consults two scholars, Holofernes and Sir Nathaniel, who conclude that the letter is written by Berowne and instruct her to tell the King. </p><p>The King and his lords lie in hiding and watch one another as each subsequently reveals his feelings of love. The King ultimately chastises the lords for breaking the oath, but Berowne reveals that the King is likewise in love with the Princess. Jaquenetta and Costard enter with Berowne's letter and accuse him of treason. Berowne confesses to breaking the oath, explaining that the only study worthy of mankind is that of love, and he and the other men collectively decide to relinquish the vow. Arranging for Holofernes to entertain the ladies later, the men then dress as <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Moscow" class="mw-redirect" title="Duchy of Moscow">Muscovites</a> and court the ladies in disguise. The Queen's courtier Boyet, having overheard their planning, helps the ladies trick the men by disguising themselves as each other. When the lords return as themselves, the ladies taunt them and expose their ruse. </p><p>Impressed by the ladies' wit, the men apologize, and when all identities are righted, they watch Holofernes, Sir Nathaniel, Costard, Moth and Don Armado present the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Worthies" title="Nine Worthies">Nine Worthies</a>. The four lords and Boyet heckle the play, saving their sole praise for Costard. Don Armado and Costard almost come to blows when Costard reveals mid-pageant that Don Armado has got Jaquenetta pregnant. Their spat is interrupted by news that the Princess's father has died. The Princess makes plans to leave at once, and she and her ladies, readying for mourning, declare that the men must wait a year and a day to prove their loves lasting. Don Armado announces he will swear a similar oath to Jaquenetta and then presents the nobles with a song. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:First-page-first-folio-love%27s-labors-lost.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/First-page-first-folio-love%27s-labors-lost.jpg/220px-First-page-first-folio-love%27s-labors-lost.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/First-page-first-folio-love%27s-labors-lost.jpg/330px-First-page-first-folio-love%27s-labors-lost.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/First-page-first-folio-love%27s-labors-lost.jpg/440px-First-page-first-folio-love%27s-labors-lost.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1110" /></a><figcaption>The first page of the play in the <a href="/wiki/First_Folio" title="First Folio">First Folio</a> (1623)</figcaption></figure><p><i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> may be found to have a number of sources for various aspects, but a primary source for the story is not extant. It has this in common with two other Shakespeare plays – <i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199861–73_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199861–73-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some possible influences on <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> can be found in the early plays of <a href="/wiki/John_Lyly" title="John Lyly">John Lyly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(dramatist)" title="Robert Wilson (dramatist)">Robert Wilson</a>'s <i>The Cobbler's Prophecy</i> (c. 1590) and <a href="/wiki/Pierre_de_La_Primaudaye" title="Pierre de La Primaudaye">Pierre de La Primaudaye</a>'s <i>L'Academie française</i> (1577).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Michael Dobson and <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Wells" title="Stanley Wells">Stanley Wells</a> comment that it has often been conjectured that the plot derives from "a now lost account of a diplomatic visit made to Henry in 1578 by <a href="/wiki/Catherine_de%27_Medici" title="Catherine de' Medici">Catherine de' Medici</a> and her daughter <a href="/wiki/Marguerite_de_Valois" class="mw-redirect" title="Marguerite de Valois">Marguerite de Valois</a>, Henry's estranged wife, to discuss the future of Aquitaine, but this is by no means certain."<sup id="cite_ref-dob_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dob-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The four main male characters are all loosely based on historical figures; Navarre is based on Henry of Navarre (who later became <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_France" title="Henry IV of France">Henry IV of France</a>), Berowne on <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gontaut,_duc_de_Biron" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron">Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron</a>, Dumain on <a href="/wiki/Charles,_Duke_of_Mayenne" title="Charles, Duke of Mayenne">Charles, duc de Mayenne</a> and Longaville on <a href="/wiki/Henri_I_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans,_duc_de_Longueville" title="Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville">Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Biron in particular was well known in England because <a href="/wiki/Robert_Devereux,_2nd_Earl_of_Essex" title="Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex">Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex</a>, had joined forces with Biron's army in support of Henry in 1591.<sup id="cite_ref-dob_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dob-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Albert Tricomi states that "the play's humorous idealization could remain durable as long as the French names of its principal characters remained familiar to Shakespeare's audiences. This means that the witty portrayal of Navarre's court could remain reasonably effective until the assassination of Henry IV in 1610. ... Such considerations suggest that the portrayals of Navarre and the civil-war generals presented Elizabethan audiences not with a mere collection of French names in the news, but with an added dramatic dimension which, once lost, helps to account for the eclipse <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> soon underwent."<sup id="cite_ref-Tricomi_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tricomi-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Critics have attempted to draw connections between notable <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabethan">Elizabethan</a> English persons and the characters of Don Armado, Moth, Sir Nathaniel, and Holofernes, with little success.<sup id="cite_ref-Tricomi_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tricomi-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Date_and_text">Date and text</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Date and text"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost,_1598.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg/220px-Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg/330px-Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg/440px-Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1069" /></a><figcaption>Frontispiece from <i>Loues labors loſt</i>, 1598 from the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:View_of_first_page_from_Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost,_1598.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/View_of_first_page_from_Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg/220px-View_of_first_page_from_Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/View_of_first_page_from_Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg/330px-View_of_first_page_from_Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/View_of_first_page_from_Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg/440px-View_of_first_page_from_Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%2C_1598.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1055" /></a><figcaption>First page from <i>Loues labors loſt</i>, 1598, from the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection</figcaption></figure> <p>Most scholars believe the play was written in 1594–1595, but not later than 1598.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199859_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199859-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> was first published in <a href="/wiki/Book_size" title="Book size">quarto</a> in 1598 by the bookseller <a href="/wiki/Cuthbert_Burby" title="Cuthbert Burby">Cuthbert Burby</a>. The title page states that the play was "Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere," which has suggested to some scholars a revision of an earlier version.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dating to 1598, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">Edinburgh University</a>'s manuscript is one of the earliest known copies of the work and according to its title page, is the same version as that which was presented to <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Queen Elizabeth I</a> the previous Christmas, in 1597. It is in quarto format and was donated to <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">Edinburgh University</a> between 1626 and 1636 by former student <a href="/wiki/William_Drummond_of_Hawthornden" title="William Drummond of Hawthornden">William Drummond</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle" title="Hawthornden Castle">Hawthornden</a>, making it part of the university's first literature collection.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The play next appeared in print in the <a href="/wiki/First_Folio" title="First Folio">First Folio</a> in 1623, with a later quarto in 1631. <i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Won" title="Love's Labour's Won">Love's Labour's Won</a></i> is considered by some to be a lost sequel.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199880–81_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199880–81-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Love’s Labour’s Lost</i> features the longest scene in all of Shakespeare's plays (5.2), which, depending upon formatting and editorial decisions, ranges from around 920 lines<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to just over 1000 lines.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The First Folio records the scene at 942 lines. </p><p>The play also features the single longest word in all of Shakespeare's plays: <i><a href="/wiki/Honorificabilitudinitatibus" title="Honorificabilitudinitatibus">honorificabilitudinitatibus</a></i>, spoken by Costard at 5.1.30. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_Quarto.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_Quarto.jpg/220px-Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_Quarto.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_Quarto.jpg/330px-Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_Quarto.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_Quarto.jpg/440px-Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_Quarto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1063" /></a><figcaption>Title page of the second quarto (1631)</figcaption></figure> <p>The speech given by Berowne at 4.3.284–361 is potentially the longest in all of Shakespeare's plays, depending on editorial choices. Shakespeare critic and editor <a href="/wiki/Edward_Capell" title="Edward Capell">Edward Capell</a> has pointed out that certain passages within the speech seem to be redundant and argues that these passages represent a first draft which was not adequately corrected before going to print.<sup id="cite_ref-Furness_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furness-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Specifically, lines 291–313 are "repeated in substance"<sup id="cite_ref-Furness_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Furness-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> further in the speech and are sometimes omitted by editors.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With no omissions, the speech is 77 lines and 588 words. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Analysis_and_criticism">Analysis and criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Analysis and criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Title">Title</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Title"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The title is normally given as <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>. The use of apostrophes varies in early editions. In its first 1598 quarto publication it appears as <i>Loues labors loſt</i>. In the 1623 <a href="/wiki/First_Folio" title="First Folio">First Folio</a> it is <i>Loues Labour's Lost</i> and in the 1631 quarto it is <i>Loues Labours Lost</i>. In the <a href="/wiki/Third_Folio" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Folio">Third Folio</a> it appears for the first time with the modern punctuation and spelling as <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/John_Rigby_Hale" title="John Rigby Hale">John Hale</a> 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. Hale suggests that the witty alliteration of the title is in keeping with the pedantic nature of the play.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1935 <a href="/wiki/Frances_Yates" title="Frances Yates">Frances Yates</a> asserted that the title derived from a line in <a href="/wiki/John_Florio" title="John Florio">John Florio</a>'s <i>His firste Fruites</i> (1578): "We neede not speak so much of loue, al books are ful of lou, with so many authours, that it were labour lost to speake of Loue",<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a source from which Shakespeare also took the untranslated Venetian proverb <i>Venetia, Venetia/Chi non ti vede non ti pretia</i> (LLL 4.2.92–93) ("Venice, Venice, Who does not see you cannot praise you").<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reputation">Reputation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Reputation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> abounds in sophisticated wordplay, puns, and literary allusions and is filled with clever pastiches of contemporary poetic forms.<sup id="cite_ref-Arden_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arden-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critic and historian John Pendergast states that "perhaps more than any other Shakespearean play, it explores the power and limitations of language, and this blatant concern for language led many early critics to believe that it was the work of a playwright just learning his art."<sup id="cite_ref-Pendergast_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pendergast-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Western_Canon" title="The Western Canon">The Western Canon</a></i> (1994), <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a> lauds the work as "astonishing" and refers to it as Shakespeare's "first absolute achievement".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is often assumed that the play was written for performance at the <a href="/wiki/Inns_of_Court" title="Inns of Court">Inns of Court</a>, whose students would have been most likely to appreciate its style. It has never been among Shakespeare's most popular plays, probably because its pedantic humour and linguistic density are extremely demanding of contemporary theatregoers.<sup id="cite_ref-Arden_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arden-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pendergast_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pendergast-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The satirical allusions of Navarre's court are likewise inaccessible, "having been principally directed to fashions of language that have long passed away, and [are] consequently little understood, rather than in any great deficiency of invention."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHalliwell-Phillipps1879[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_February_2023]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(February_2023)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHalliwell-Phillipps1879[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_February_2023]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(February_2023)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Themes">Themes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Masculine_desire">Masculine desire</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Masculine desire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Masculine desire structures the play and helps to shape its action. The men's sexual appetite manifests in their desire for fame and honour; the notion of women as dangerous to masculinity and intellect is established early on. The King and his Lords' desires for their idealized women are deferred, confused, and ridiculed throughout the play. As the play comes to a close, their desire is deferred yet again, resulting in an increased exaltation of the women.<sup id="cite_ref-Breitenberg_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breitenberg-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Critic Mark Breitenberg commented that the use of idealistic poetry, popularized by <a href="/wiki/Petrarch" title="Petrarch">Petrarch</a>, effectively becomes the textualized form of the male gaze.<sup id="cite_ref-Breitenberg_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breitenberg-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In describing and idealizing the ladies, the King and his Lords exercise a form of control over women they love. Don Armado also represents masculine desire through his relentless pursuit of Jacquenetta. The theme of desire is heightened by the concern of increasing female sexuality throughout the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> period and the consequent threat of <a href="/wiki/Cuckoldry" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuckoldry">cuckoldry</a>. Politics of love, marriage, and power are equally forceful in shaping the thread of masculine desire that drives the plot.<sup id="cite_ref-Breitenberg_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breitenberg-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Reckoning_and_rationalization">Reckoning and rationalization</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Reckoning and rationalization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term 'reckoning' is used in its multiple meanings throughout the Shakespeare canon.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> in particular, it is often used to signify a moral judgement; most notably, the idea of a final reckoning as it relates to death. Though the play entwines fantasy and reality, the arrival of the messenger to announce the death of the Princess's father ultimately brings this notion to a head. Scholar Cynthia Lewis suggested that the appearance of the final reckoning is necessary in reminding the lovers of the seriousness of marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The need to settle the disagreement between Navarre and France likewise suggests an instance of reckoning, though this particular reckoning is settled offstage. This is presented in stark contrast to the final scene, in which the act of reckoning cannot be avoided. In acknowledging the consequences of his actions, Don Armado is the only one to deal with his reckoning in a noble manner. The Lords and the King effectively pass judgement on themselves, revealing their true moral character when mocking the players during the representation of the Nine Worthies.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similar to reckoning is the notion of rationalization, which provides the basis for the swift change in the ladies' feelings for the men. The ladies are able to talk themselves into falling in love with the men due to the rationalization of the men's purported flaws. Lewis concluded that "the proclivity to rationalize a position, a like, or a dislike, is linked in <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> with the difficulty of reckoning absolute value, whose slipperiness is indicated throughout the play."<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_24-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Reality_versus_fantasy">Reality versus fantasy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Reality versus fantasy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Princess_of_France_(Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Princess_of_France_%28Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%29.jpg/220px-Princess_of_France_%28Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Princess_of_France_%28Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%29.jpg/330px-Princess_of_France_%28Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Princess_of_France_%28Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%29.jpg/440px-Princess_of_France_%28Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="481" data-file-height="647" /></a><figcaption>Princess of France (from an 1850 edition)</figcaption></figure> <p>Critic Joseph Westlund wrote that <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> functions as a "prelude to the more extensive commentary on imagination in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i>."<sup id="cite_ref-Westlund_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westlund-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are several plot points driven by fantasy and imagination throughout the play. The Lords and the King's declaration of abstinence is a fancy that falls short of achievement. This fantasy rests on the men's idea that the resulting fame will allow them to circumvent death and oblivion, a fantastical notion itself. Within moments of swearing their oath, it becomes clear that their fantastical goal is unachievable given the reality of the world, the unnatural state of abstinence itself, and the arrival of the Princess and her ladies. This juxtaposition ultimately lends itself to the irony and humour in the play.<sup id="cite_ref-Westlund_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westlund-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The commoners represent the theme of reality and achievement versus fantasy via their production regarding the Nine Worthies. Like the men's fantastical pursuit of fame, the play within a play represents the commoners' concern with fame. The relationship between the fantasy of love and the reality of worthwhile achievement, a popular Renaissance topic, is also utilized throughout the play. Don Armado attempts to reconcile these opposite desires using Worthies who fell in love as model examples.<sup id="cite_ref-Westlund_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westlund-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Time is suspended throughout the play and is of little substance to the plot. The Princess, though originally "craving quick dispatch," quickly falls under the spell of love and abandons her urgent business. This suggests that the majority of the action takes place within a fantasy world. Only with the news of the Princess's father's death are time and reality reawakened.<sup id="cite_ref-Westlund_25-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westlund-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike many of Shakespeare’s plays, music plays a role only in the final scene of <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>. The songs of spring and winter, titled "Ver and Hiems" and "The Cuckoo and the Owl", respectively, occur near the end of the play. Given the critical controversy regarding the exact dating of <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>, there is some indication that "the songs belong to the 1597 additions."<sup id="cite_ref-McLay_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McLay-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Different interpretations of the meaning of these songs include: optimistic commentary for the future, bleak commentary regarding the recent announcement of death, or an ironic device by which to direct the King and his Lords towards a new outlook on love and life.<sup id="cite_ref-Berger_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berger-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In keeping with the theme of time as it relates to reality and fantasy, these are seasonal songs that restore the sense of time to the play. Due to the opposing nature of the two songs, they can be viewed as a debate on the opposing attitudes on love found throughout the play.<sup id="cite_ref-Westlund_25-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westlund-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Catherine McLay comments that the songs are functional in their interpretation of the central themes in <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-McLay_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McLay-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McLay also suggests that the songs negate what many consider to be a "heretical" ending for a comedy. The songs, a product of traditional comedic structure, are a method by which the play can be "[brought] within the periphery of the usual comic definition."<sup id="cite_ref-McLay_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McLay-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Critic Thomas Berger states that, regardless of the meaning of these final songs, they are important in their contrast with the lack of song throughout the rest of the play.<sup id="cite_ref-Berger_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berger-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In cutting themselves off from women and the possibility of love, the King and his Lords have effectively cut themselves off from song. Song is allowed into the world of the play at the beginning of Act III, after the Princess and her ladies have been introduced and the men begin to fall in love. Moth’s song "Concolinel" indicates that the vows will be broken.<sup id="cite_ref-Berger_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berger-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Act I, Scene II, Moth recites a poem but fails to sing it. Don Armado insists that Moth sing it twice, but he does not. Berger infers that a song was intended to be inserted at this point, but was never written. Had a song been inserted at this point of the play, it would have followed dramatic convention of the time, which often called for music between scenes.<sup id="cite_ref-Berger_27-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berger-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performance_history">Performance history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Performance history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Drew_as_the_King_of_Navarre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/John_Drew_as_the_King_of_Navarre.jpg/220px-John_Drew_as_the_King_of_Navarre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="352" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/John_Drew_as_the_King_of_Navarre.jpg/330px-John_Drew_as_the_King_of_Navarre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/John_Drew_as_the_King_of_Navarre.jpg/440px-John_Drew_as_the_King_of_Navarre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="959" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Photograph of <a href="/wiki/John_Drew_Jr." title="John Drew Jr.">John Drew</a> as the King of Navarre in <a href="/wiki/Augustin_Daly" title="Augustin Daly">Augustin Daly</a>'s production</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest recorded performance of the play occurred at Christmas in 1597 at the Court before Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Elizabeth</a>. A second performance is recorded to have occurred in 1605, either at the house of the <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton" title="Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton">Earl of Southampton</a> or at that of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Cecil,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury">Robert Cecil, Lord Cranborne</a>. The first known production after Shakespeare's era was not until 1839, at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Opera_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Opera House">Theatre Royal, Covent Garden</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Lucia_Elizabeth_Vestris" title="Lucia Elizabeth Vestris">Madame Vestris</a> as Rosaline.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> was unimpressed, stating: "The play moved very heavily. The whole dialogue is but a string of brilliant conceits, which, if not delivered well, are tedious and unintelligible. The manner in which it was played last night destroyed the brilliancy completely, and left a residuum of insipidity which was encumbered rather than relieved by the scenery and decorations."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only other performances of the play recorded in England in the 19th century were at <a href="/wiki/Sadler%27s_Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadler's Wells">Sadler's Wells</a> in 1857 and the <a href="/wiki/St._James%27s_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="St. James's Theatre">St. James's Theatre</a> in 1886.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Notable 20th-century British productions included a 1936 staging at the <a href="/wiki/Old_Vic" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Vic">Old Vic</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Michael_Redgrave" title="Michael Redgrave">Michael Redgrave</a> as Ferdinand and <a href="/wiki/Alec_Clunes" title="Alec Clunes">Alec Clunes</a> as Berowne. In 1949, the play was given at the <a href="/wiki/New_Theatre_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Theatre (London)">New Theatre</a> with Redgrave in the role of Berowne.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cast of a 1965 <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> production included <a href="/wiki/Glenda_Jackson" title="Glenda Jackson">Glenda Jackson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Janet_Suzman" title="Janet Suzman">Janet Suzman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Timothy_West" title="Timothy West">Timothy West</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1968, the play was staged by <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">National Theatre</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Derek_Jacobi" title="Derek Jacobi">Derek Jacobi</a> as the Duke and <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Brett" title="Jeremy Brett">Jeremy Brett</a> as Berowne.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Royal Shakespeare Company produced the play again in 1994. The critic <a href="/wiki/Michael_Billington_(critic)" title="Michael Billington (critic)">Michael Billington</a> wrote in his review of the production: "The more I see <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>, the more I think it Shakespeare's most beguiling comedy. It both celebrates and satisfies linguistic exuberance, explores the often painful transition from youth to maturity, and reminds us of our common mortality."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late summer 2005, an adaptation of the play was staged in the Dari language in Kabul, Afghanistan by a group of Afghan actors, and was reportedly very well received.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2009 staging by <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe" title="Shakespeare's Globe">Shakespeare's Globe</a> theatre, with artistic direction by <a href="/wiki/Dominic_Dromgoole" title="Dominic Dromgoole">Dominic Dromgoole</a>, toured internationally. <a href="/wiki/Ben_Brantley" title="Ben Brantley">Ben Brantley</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, called the production, seen at <a href="/wiki/Pace_University" title="Pace University">Pace University</a>, "sophomoric". He postulated that the play itself "may well be the first and best example of a genre that would flourish in less sophisticated forms five centuries later: the college comedy."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> completed a double-feature in which <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>, set on the eve of the First World War, is followed by <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i> (re-titled <i>Love's Labour's Won</i>). Dominic Cavendish of the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">Telegraph</a></i> called it "the most blissfully entertaining and emotionally involving RSC offering I’ve seen in ages" and remarked that "Parallels between the two works – the sparring wit, the sex-war skirmishes, the shift from showy linguistic evasion to heart-felt earnestness – become persuasively apparent."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Globe_stage_(997806416).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Globe_stage_%28997806416%29.jpg/240px-Globe_stage_%28997806416%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Globe_stage_%28997806416%29.jpg/360px-Globe_stage_%28997806416%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Globe_stage_%28997806416%29.jpg/480px-Globe_stage_%28997806416%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2298" data-file-height="3018" /></a><figcaption>Start of a performance of <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> at <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe" title="Shakespeare's Globe">Shakespeare's Globe</a>, London</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>'s poem <i><a href="/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)" title="The Princess (Tennyson poem)">The Princess</a></i> (and, by extension, <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a>'s comic opera <i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Ida" title="Princess Ida">Princess Ida</a></i>) is speculated by Gerhard Joseph to have been inspired by <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Thomas Mann</a> in his novel <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_(novel)" title="Doctor Faustus (novel)">Doctor Faustus</a></i> (1943) has the fictional German composer Adrian Leverkühn attempt to write an opera on the story of the play.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Musical_theatre,_opera,_and_plays"><span id="Musical_theatre.2C_opera.2C_and_plays"></span>Musical theatre, opera, and plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Musical theatre, opera, and plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An <a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_(opera)" title="Love's Labour's Lost (opera)">opera of the same title</a> as the play was composed by <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Nabokov" title="Nicolas Nabokov">Nicolas Nabokov</a>, with a libretto by <a href="/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden">W. H. Auden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chester_Kallman" title="Chester Kallman">Chester Kallman</a>, and first performed in 1973. </p><p>In the summer of 2013, <a href="/wiki/The_Public_Theater" title="The Public Theater">The Public Theater</a> in New York City presented a musical adaptation of the play as part of their <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_the_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare in the Park">Shakespeare in the Park</a> programming. This production marked the first new Shakespeare-based musical to be produced at the <a href="/wiki/Delacorte_Theater" title="Delacorte Theater">Delacorte Theater</a> in <a href="/wiki/Central_Park" title="Central Park">Central Park</a> since the 1971 mounting of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Gentlemen_of_Verona" title="The Two Gentlemen of Verona">The Two Gentlemen of Verona</a></i> with music by <a href="/wiki/Galt_MacDermot" title="Galt MacDermot">Galt MacDermot</a>. The adaptation of <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> featured a score by <i><a href="/wiki/Bloody_Bloody_Andrew_Jackson" title="Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson">Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</a></i> collaborators <a href="/wiki/Michael_Friedman_(composer)" title="Michael Friedman (composer)">Michael Friedman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Timbers" title="Alex Timbers">Alex Timbers</a>. Timbers also directed the production, which starred <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Breaker" title="Daniel Breaker">Daniel Breaker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colin_Donnell" title="Colin Donnell">Colin Donnell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Dratch" title="Rachel Dratch">Rachel Dratch</a>, and Patti Murin, among others.<sup id="cite_ref-Hetrick_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hetrick-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2004 <a href="/wiki/Ska" title="Ska">ska</a> musical <i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Life_(musical)" title="The Big Life (musical)">The Big Life</a></i> is based on <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>, reworked to be about the <a href="/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_people#The_.22Windrush_generation.22" title="British African-Caribbean people">Windrush generation</a> arriving in London.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Marc Palmieri's 2015 play <i>The Groundling</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a farce the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> referred to as "half comedy and half tragedy", was billed as a "meditation on the meaning of the final moments of <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film,_television_and_radio"><span id="Film.2C_television_and_radio"></span>Film, television and radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Film, television and radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_(film)" title="Love's Labour's Lost (film)">Love's Labour's Lost (film)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost_(film)" title="Love's Labour's Lost (film)">2000 film adaptation</a> relocated the setting to the 1930s and attempted to make the play more accessible by turning it into a musical. The film was a box office disappointment.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The play was one of the last works to be recorded for the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television_Shakespeare" title="BBC Television Shakespeare">BBC Television Shakespeare</a> project, broadcast in 1985. The production set events in the eighteenth century, the costumes and sets being modeled on the paintings of <a href="/wiki/Jean-Antoine_Watteau" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean-Antoine Watteau">Jean-Antoine Watteau</a>. This was the only instance in the project of a work set in a period after Shakespeare's death.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play is featured in an episode of the British TV show, <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i>. The episode, entitled <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shakespeare_Code" title="The Shakespeare Code">The Shakespeare Code</a></i>, focuses on Shakespeare himself and a hypothetical follow-up play, <i>Love's Labour's Won</i>, whose final scene is used as a portal for alien witches to invade Earth. All copies of this play disappear along with the witches.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>BBC Radio 3 aired a radio adaptation on 16 December 1946, directed by Noel Illif, with music by <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Finzi" title="Gerald Finzi">Gerald Finzi</a> scored for a small chamber orchestra. The cast included <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a>. The music was subsequently converted into an orchestral suite.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> BBC Radio 3 aired another radio adaptation on 22 February 1979, directed by David Spenser, with music by Derek Oldfield. The cast included <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kitchen" title="Michael Kitchen">Michael Kitchen</a> as Ferdinand; <a href="/wiki/John_McEnery" title="John McEnery">John McEnery</a> as Berowne; <a href="/wiki/Anna_Massey" title="Anna Massey">Anna Massey</a> as the Princess of France; <a href="/wiki/Eileen_Atkins" title="Eileen Atkins">Eileen Atkins</a> as Rosaline; and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a> as Don Adriano.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A modern-language adaptation of the play, titled <i>Groups of Ten or More People</i>, was released online by <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>-based company Littlebrain Theatre in July 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This adaptation, set during the early days of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, was filmed entirely over the digital conferencing program <a href="/wiki/Zoom_(software)" title="Zoom (software)">Zoom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199861–73-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199861–73_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWoudhuysen1998">Woudhuysen 1998</a>, pp. 61–73.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerrigan, J. ed. "Love's Labours Lost", New Penguin Shakespeare, Harmondsworth 1982, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-070738-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-14-070738-7">0-14-070738-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dob-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dob_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dob_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Dobson, M. and Wells, S. <i>The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare</i>, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 264</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Richard_Hibbard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Richard Hibbard (page does not exist)">G.R. Hibbard</a> (ed), <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 49</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Tricomi-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Tricomi_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tricomi_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTricomi1979" class="citation journal cs1">Tricomi, Albert (1979). "The Witty Idealization of the French Court in Love's Labor's Lost". <i>Shakespeare Studies</i>. <b>12</b>: 25–33.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Shakespeare+Studies&rft.atitle=The+Witty+Idealization+of+the+French+Court+in+Love%27s+Labor%27s+Lost&rft.volume=12&rft.pages=25-33&rft.date=1979&rft.aulast=Tricomi&rft.aufirst=Albert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199859-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoudhuysen199859_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWoudhuysen1998">Woudhuysen 1998</a>, p. 59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.s4ulanguages.com/william.html">"William"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160403032304/http://www.s4ulanguages.com/william.html">Archived</a> from the original on 3 April 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 July</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=William&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.s4ulanguages.com%2Fwilliam.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span> See title page of facsimile of the original 1st edition (1598)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/UoEsha~1~1~31197~100318:Loves-Labours-Lost,-1598,-f-1r">"Loves Labours Lost, 1598, f.1r"</a>. <i>images.is.ed.ac.uk</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 39–40</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMabillard" class="citation web cs1">Mabillard, Amanda. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/LLL_5_2.html">"Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost 5.2 – The Owl and the Cuckoo. Tu-whit to-who"</a>. <i>www.shakespeare-online.com</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171229225545/http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/LLL_5_2.html">Archived</a> from the original on 29 December 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.shakespeare-online.com&rft.atitle=Shakespeare%27s+Love%27s+Labour%27s+Lost+5.2+%E2%80%93+The+Owl+and+the+Cuckoo.+Tu-whit+to-who&rft.aulast=Mabillard&rft.aufirst=Amanda&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shakespeare-online.com%2Fplays%2FLLL_5_2.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/loves-labors-lost/read/5/2//"><i>Love's Labor's Lost</i> 5.2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folger_Shakespeare_Library" title="Folger Shakespeare Library">Folger Shakespeare Library</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Furness-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Furness_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Furness_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Furness, Horace Howard. (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1904), pp. 192–194</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/loves-labors-lost/read/4/3/#line-4.3.310"><i>Love's Labor's Lost</i> 4.3/310</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folger_Shakespeare_Library" title="Folger Shakespeare Library">Folger Shakespeare Library</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="Doesn't say anything about omissions. 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James Evan Adlard. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/memorandaonloves00hallrich/page/10/mode/2up">10–11</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Memoranda+on+Love%27s+Labour%27s+Lost%2C+King+John%2C+Othello%2C+and+on+Romeo+and+Juliet&rft.pages=10-11&rft.pub=James+Evan+Adlard&rft.date=1879&rft.aulast=Halliwell-Phillipps&rft.aufirst=James+Orchard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHale1997" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Rigby_Hale" title="John Rigby Hale">Hale, John</a> (1997). "Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Explicator" title="The Explicator">The Explicator</a></i>. <b>56</b> (1): 9. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00144949709595237">10.1080/00144949709595237</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Explicator&rft.atitle=Shakespeare%27s+Love%27s+Labour%27s+Lost&rft.volume=56&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=9&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F00144949709595237&rft.aulast=Hale&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Yates, Frances A. <i>A Study of Love's Labour's Lost</i>, Pennsylvania: Folcroft Press (1936), p. 35</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Elam, Keir. "'At the cubiculo': Shakespeare’s Problems with Italian Language and Culture" in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=f23MHZcRoOgC"><i>Italian culture in the drama of Shakespeare & his contemporaries: Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning</i></a>, Michele Marrapodi, ed. Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 99–110 [100]. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7546-5504-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7546-5504-6">978-0-7546-5504-6</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Arden-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Arden_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Arden_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWoudhuysen2001" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Woudhuysen" title="Henry Woudhuysen">Woudhuysen, H. R.</a> (2001). "Love's Labour's Lost". In Proudfoot, Richard; et al. (eds.). <i>The Arden Shakespeare complete works</i> (2 ed.). London: Thomson. p. 743. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-903436-61-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-903436-61-5"><bdi>978-1-903436-61-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Love%27s+Labour%27s+Lost&rft.btitle=The+Arden+Shakespeare+complete+works&rft.place=London&rft.pages=743&rft.edition=2&rft.pub=Thomson&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-1-903436-61-5&rft.aulast=Woudhuysen&rft.aufirst=H.+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pendergast-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Pendergast_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Pendergast_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPendergast2002" class="citation book cs1">Pendergast, John (2002). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/loveslabourslost0000pend"><i>Love's Labour's Lost: A Guide to the Play</i></a></span>. Greenwood Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780313313158" title="Special:BookSources/9780313313158"><bdi>9780313313158</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Love%27s+Labour%27s+Lost%3A+A+Guide+to+the+Play&rft.pub=Greenwood+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=9780313313158&rft.aulast=Pendergast&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Floveslabourslost0000pend&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBloom2014" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Bloom, Harold</a> (2014). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Western_Canon" title="The Western Canon">The Western Canon</a></i>. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zIOuAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT61">46</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0547546483" title="Special:BookSources/978-0547546483"><bdi>978-0547546483</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Western+Canon&rft.pages=46&rft.pub=Houghton+Mifflin+Harcourt&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-0547546483&rft.aulast=Bloom&rft.aufirst=Harold&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHalliwell-Phillipps1879[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_February_2023]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(February_2023)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHalliwell-Phillipps1879[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_February_2023]]<sup_class="noprint_Inline-Template_"_style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i>[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title="This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&#32;(February_2023)">page&nbsp;needed</span>]]</i>&#93;</sup>_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHalliwell-Phillipps1879">Halliwell-Phillipps 1879</a>, p. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (February 2023)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Breitenberg-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Breitenberg_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Breitenberg_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Breitenberg_23-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBreitenberg1992" class="citation journal cs1">Breitenberg, Mark (1992). 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"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'We Know What We Know': Reckoning in Love's Labor's Lost". <i>Studies in Philology</i>. <b>105</b> (2): 245–264. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fsip.2008.0008">10.1353/sip.2008.0008</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:159766371">159766371</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Studies+in+Philology&rft.atitle=%27We+Know+What+We+Know%27%3A+Reckoning+in+Love%27s+Labor%27s+Lost&rft.volume=105&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=245-264&rft.date=2008&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1353%2Fsip.2008.0008&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A159766371%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Lewis&rft.aufirst=Cynthia&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Westlund-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Westlund_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Westlund_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Westlund_25-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Westlund_25-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Westlund_25-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWestlund1967" class="citation journal cs1">Westlund, Joseph (1967). 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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 79. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-5800-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8166-5800-8"><bdi>978-0-8166-5800-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tennysonian+Love%3A+The+Strange+Diagonal&rft.place=Minneapolis&rft.pages=79&rft.pub=University+of+Minnesota+Press&rft.date=1969&rft.isbn=978-0-8166-5800-8&rft.aulast=Joseph&rft.aufirst=Gerhard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlackmur1950" class="citation journal cs1">Blackmur, R.P. (1950). "Parody and Critique: Notes on Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus". <i>The Kenyon Review</i>. <b>12</b> (1): 20.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Kenyon+Review&rft.atitle=Parody+and+Critique%3A+Notes+on+Thomas+Mann%27s+Doctor+Faustus&rft.volume=12&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=20&rft.date=1950&rft.aulast=Blackmur&rft.aufirst=R.P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hetrick-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hetrick_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHetrick2013" class="citation news cs1">Hetrick, Adam (23 July 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.playbill.com/article/shakespeare-in-the-park-musical-adaptation-of-loves-labours-lost-premieres-july-23-com-207504">"Shakespeare in the Park Musical Adaptation of <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> Premieres July 23"</a>. <i>Playbill</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 January</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Playbill&rft.atitle=Shakespeare+in+the+Park+Musical+Adaptation+of+Love%27s+Labour%27s+Lost+Premieres+July+23&rft.date=2013-07-23&rft.aulast=Hetrick&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.playbill.com%2Farticle%2Fshakespeare-in-the-park-musical-adaptation-of-loves-labours-lost-premieres-july-23-com-207504&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOjumu2004" class="citation news cs1">Ojumu, Akin (17 April 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/apr/18/theatre1">"Reach for the ska"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077">0261-3077</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 March</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Reach+for+the+ska&rft.date=2004-04-17&rft.issn=0261-3077&rft.aulast=Ojumu&rft.aufirst=Akin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fstage%2F2004%2Fapr%2F18%2Ftheatre1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Palmieri, Marc (2015). <i>The Groundling</i>. New York: Dramatists Play Service. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8222-3347-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8222-3347-3">978-0-8222-3347-3</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSoloski2015" class="citation news cs1">Soloski, Alexis (20 February 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/theater/review-the-groundling-a-backstage-farce-with-heartbreak.html">"Review: <i>The Groundling</i>, a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170722085404/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/theater/review-the-groundling-a-backstage-farce-with-heartbreak.html">Archived</a> from the original on 22 July 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Review%3A+The+Groundling%2C+a+Backstage+Farce+With+Heartbreak&rft.date=2015-02-20&rft.aulast=Soloski&rft.aufirst=Alexis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F02%2F21%2Ftheater%2Freview-the-groundling-a-backstage-farce-with-heartbreak.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=loveslabourslost.htm">"<i>Love's Labour's Lost</i>"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131103131817/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=loveslabourslost.htm">Archived</a> 3 November 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Box Office Mojo, accessed 7 December 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Martin Wiggins, The (BBC DVD) Shakespeare Collection: Viewing Notes (booklet included with the DVD box-set)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-3-2007/302-the-shakespeare-code">"Episode 302, The Shakespeare Code"</a>. <i>Dr. Who TV</i>. 22 September 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131023165332/http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-3-2007/302-the-shakespeare-code">Archived</a> from the original on 23 October 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Dr.+Who+TV&rft.atitle=Episode+302%2C+The+Shakespeare+Code&rft.date=2009-09-22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.doctorwhotv.co.uk%2Fepisodes%2Fseries-3-2007%2F302-the-shakespeare-code&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection. Sanders, Julie. <i>Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings</i>, Cambridge, UK 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71567">"Love's Labour's Lost"</a>. <i>British Universities Film & Video Council</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20131112095028/http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av71567">Archived</a> from the original on 12 November 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=British+Universities+Film+%26+Video+Council&rft.atitle=Love%27s+Labour%27s+Lost&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbufvc.ac.uk%2Fshakespeare%2Findex.php%2Ftitle%2Fav71567&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Littlebrain-Theatre-Announces-Original-Filmed-Play-GROUPS-OF-TEN-OR-MORE-PEOPLE-20200626">"Littlebrain Theatre Announces Original Filmed Play"</a>. <i>Broadway World Chicago</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Broadway+World+Chicago&rft.atitle=Littlebrain+Theatre+Announces+Original+Filmed+Play&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadwayworld.com%2Fchicago%2Farticle%2FLittlebrain-Theatre-Announces-Original-Filmed-Play-GROUPS-OF-TEN-OR-MORE-PEOPLE-20200626&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Archived at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Gp1PXYgU0b0">Ghostarchive</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200719110238/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp1PXYgU0b0">Wayback Machine</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp1PXYgU0b0">"Groups of Ten or More People (2020)"</a>. <i>YouTube</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=YouTube&rft.atitle=Groups+of+Ten+or+More+People+%282020%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGp1PXYgU0b0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.totaltheater.com/?q=node%2F8591&fbclid=IwAR33-gapB3bez7NAjD6W474z45JkRpecjimDuIbepyokN7hUZ25Rcqc00GQ">"Groups of Ten or More People"</a>. <i>Total Theatre</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Total+Theatre&rft.atitle=Groups+of+Ten+or+More+People&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.totaltheater.com%2F%3Fq%3Dnode%252F8591%26fbclid%3DIwAR33-gapB3bez7NAjD6W474z45JkRpecjimDuIbepyokN7hUZ25Rcqc00GQ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALove%27s+Labour%27s+Lost" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editions">Editions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Bate" title="Jonathan Bate">Bate, Jonathan</a> and Rasmussen, Eric (eds.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The RSC Shakespeare; London: Macmillan, 2008)</li> <li>Arthos, John (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (Signet Classic Shakespeare; New York: Signet, 1965; revised edition, 1988; 2nd revised edition 2004)</li> <li>Carroll, William C. (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)</li> <li>David, Richard T. (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The Arden Shakespeare, 2nd Series; London: Arden, 1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Howard_Furness" title="Horace Howard Furness">Furness, H.H.</a> (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (A New Variourm Edition of Shakespeare; Philadelphia: <a href="/wiki/J._B._Lippincott_%26_Co." title="J. B. Lippincott & Co.">J. B. Lippincott Company</a>, 1904)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Blakemore_Evans" title="G. Blakemore Evans">Evans, G. Blakemore</a> (ed.) <i><a href="/wiki/Riverside_Shakespeare" title="Riverside Shakespeare">The Riverside Shakespeare</a></i> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974; 2nd edn., 1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Greenblatt" title="Stephen Greenblatt">Greenblatt, Stephen</a>; Cohen, Walter; Howard, Jean E. and Maus, Katharine Eisaman (eds.) <i>The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Shakespeare</i> (London: Norton, 1997)</li> <li>Harbage, Alfred (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The Pelican Shakespeare; London: Penguin, 1963; revised edition 1973)</li> <li>Hart, H.C. (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The Arden Shakespeare, 1st Series; London: Arden, 1906)</li> <li>Hibbard, G.R. (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)</li> <li>Holland, Peter (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The Pelican Shakespeare, 2nd Edition; London: Penguin, 2000)</li> <li>Kerrigan, John (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The New Penguin Shakespeare; London: Penguin, 1982; revised edition 1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Quiller-Couch" title="Arthur Quiller-Couch">Quiller-Couch, Arthur</a> and <a href="/wiki/J._Dover_Wilson" title="J. Dover Wilson">Dover Wilson, John</a> (eds.) <i>Love's Labour' Lost</i> (The New Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1923; 2nd edn. edited by Dover Wilson only, 1962)</li> <li>Walton, Nicholas (ed.) <i>Love's Labour's Lost</i> (The New Penguin Shakespeare 2nd edition; London: Penguin, 2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Wells" title="Stanley Wells">Wells, Stanley</a>; Taylor, Gary; Jowett, John and Montgomery, William (eds.) <i>The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works</i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986; 2nd ed., 2005)</li> <li>Werstine, Paul and Mowat, Barbara A. 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of Shakespeare's plays">Chronology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_in_performance" title="Shakespeare in performance">Performances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_settings" title="List of Shakespearean settings">Settings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shakespearean_scenes" title="List of Shakespearean scenes">Scenes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Chandos_portrait" title="Chandos portrait"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png/75px-Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png/113px-Shakespeare_%28oval-cropped%29.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)" title="Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)">Venus and Adonis</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare_apocrypha" title="Shakespeare apocrypha">Apocrypha</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Arden_of_Faversham" title="Arden of Faversham">Arden of Faversham</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Birth_of_Merlin" title="The Birth of Merlin">The Birth of Merlin</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio" title="The History of Cardenio">Cardenio</a></i> ✻†</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Double_Falsehood" title="Double Falsehood">Double Falsehood</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Ironside_(play)" title="Edmund Ironside (play)">Edmund Ironside</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fair_Em" title="Fair Em">Fair Em</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Locrine" title="Locrine">Locrine</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Prodigal" title="The London Prodigal">The London Prodigal</a></i></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Won" title="Love's Labour's Won">Love's Labour's Won</a></i> †</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Devil_of_Edmonton" title="The Merry Devil of Edmonton">The Merry Devil of Edmonton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mucedorus" title="Mucedorus">Mucedorus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Puritan" title="The Puritan">The Puritan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Maiden%27s_Tragedy" title="The Second Maiden's Tragedy">The Second Maiden's Tragedy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sejanus_His_Fall" title="Sejanus His Fall">Sejanus His Fall</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Oldcastle" title="Sir John Oldcastle">Sir John Oldcastle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_More_(play)" title="Sir Thomas More (play)">Sir Thomas More</a></i> ✻</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy" title="The Spanish Tragedy">The Spanish Tragedy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lord_Cromwell" title="Thomas Lord Cromwell">Thomas Lord Cromwell</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_of_Woodstock_(play)" title="Thomas of Woodstock (play)">Thomas of Woodstock</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ur-Hamlet" title="Ur-Hamlet">Ur-Hamlet</a></i> †</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vortigern_and_Rowena" title="Vortigern and Rowena">Vortigern and Rowena</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Yorkshire_Tragedy" title="A Yorkshire Tragedy">A Yorkshire Tragedy</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Passionate_Pilgrim" title="The Passionate Pilgrim">The Passionate Pilgrim</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Queen" title="To the Queen">To the Queen</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Life_of_William_Shakespeare" title="Life of William Shakespeare">Life</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of works by William Shakespeare">works</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Birthplace" title="Shakespeare's Birthplace">Birthplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_by_William_Shakespeare" title="List of works by William 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