Love's Labour's Lost (Vol. 38) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Agnew, Gates K. "Berowne and the Progress of Love's Labour's Lost." Shakespeare Studies IV (1968): 40-72.
Argues that the "ambivalent" character of Berowne is responsible for making Love's Labour's Lost an unconventional comedy.
Anderson, J. J. "The Morality of Love's Labour's Lost" Shakespeare Survey 24 (1971): 55-62.
Compares the play and its uncomic ending to the morality plays of the Middle Ages.
Berry, Ralph. "The Words of Mercury." In Shakespeare's Comedies: Explorations in Form, pp. 72-88. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1972.
Focuses on the messenger, Mercade, to argue that the plot of the play is a progression toward reality and away from fantasy, with language functioning as reality's vehicle.
Breitenberg, Mark. "The Anatomy of Masculine Desire in Love's Labor's Lost" Shakespeare Quarterly 43, No. 4 (Winter 1992): 430-49.
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