Love's Labour's Lost (Vol. 54) | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Agnew, Gates K. “Berowne and the Progress of Love's Labour's Lost.” Shakespeare Studies IV (1968): 40-72.

An analysis of Love's Labor's Lost focusing on the figure of Berowne. Agnew maintains that the play achieves its effect by flouting the conventions of comic drama.

Alvis, John. “Derivative Loves Are Labor Lost.” Renascence XLVIII, No. 4 (Summer 1996): 247-58.

Contends that both the main and subplots of Love's Labor's Lost “function in concert to comment upon the nature and consequences of vanity.”

Bevington, David. “‘Jack Hath Not Jill’: Failed Courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Survey 42 (1990): 1-13.

Studies the collapse of love in Love's Labour's Lost and John Lyly's Sappho and Phao.

Bird, Christine M. “Games Courtiers Play in Love's Labor's Lost.University of Hartford Studies in...

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