Love’s Labor’s Lost

by William Shakespeare

Publisher:

Folger Shakespeare Library

, n.d.

Overview

In Love’s Labor’s Lost, the comedy centers on four young men who fall in love against their wills. The men, one of them the king of Navarre, pledge to study for three years, avoiding all contact with women. When the Princess of France arrives on a state visit, the king insists she and her ladies camp outside the court. Even so, each young man falls in love with one of the ladies.

Product Details

• Title: Love’s Labor’s Lost
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Publisher: Folger Shakespeare Library
• Print Publication Date: n.d.
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Poetry, English; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Resource ID: LLS:LVELBRLOST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:28:52Z

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.