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Love's Labour's Lost

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First published: 1598
Pages: 125

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Four young men, the King of Navarre and three of his lords, swear off the company of women for three years so they can give themselves entirely to study and fasting. The vow lasts only until the Princess of France arrives with her ladies-in-waiting, and each scholar promptly falls for one of the visitors. Shakespeare packs the play with punning banter, mock love-sonnets, and eavesdropping scenes in which the men catch one another breaking their word. The mood shifts near the close, when news of a death sends the women home and postpones every courtship, an unusually sober ending for a comedy. It is prized for its verbal fireworks and its sly mockery of scholarly pretension. This free PDF and EPUB edition carries the full text.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet who lived during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and authored approximately 37 plays and 154 sonnets that explore themes of love, power, ambition, and human nature.