Love’s Labour’s Lost (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1598
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Genres: Drama, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Love or romance, Mistaken or secret identity, Kings, queens, or royalty, Sixteenth century, Spain or Spanish people, Nobility
- Locales: Spain, Navarre, Spain
Places Discussed
*Navarre. Historical kingdom in northern Spain, along the French border. In this early play, William Shakespeare depicts a conception of an ideal commonwealth. Setting the play within the king’s park underscores the struggle between man’s natural will to enjoy and society’s desire to restrict that will. The palace—which is never actually entered on stage—symbolizes the rules of the community to which the king and his gentlemen have chosen to retreat. The park itself is a representation of nature, not Rosalind’s forest of Arden, but rather a...
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