Dec 25, 2009

Love’s Labour’s Lost | Love’s Labour’s Lost

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Author: William Shakespeare
First Published: 1598
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
Time of Work: Sixteenth century
Setting: Navarre, Spain
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

Characters Discussed

Berowne (beh-REWN), a witty, sophisticated young lord in the court of King Ferdinand of Navarre. Although he joins his monarch’s idealistic academy, he warns his companions of the folly of study for its own sake and advises them to seek wisdom in the contemplation of feminine beauty. He delights in words, exchanging puns and rhymes with his friends and waxing rhapsodic when he falls in love. He meets his match in Rosaline and swears that he will henceforth woo with “rustic yeas and honest kersey noes.” She orders him to temper his ironic wit with...

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Love’s Labour’s Lost | Love’s Labour’s Lost

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