CRITICISM

Babcock, Weston. “Fools, Fowls, and Perttaunt-Like in Love's Labour's Lost.” Shakespeare Quarterly 2, no. 3 (July 1951): 211-19.

Explores the wordplay in Love's Labour's Lost, particularly Shakespeare's use of puns.

Brown, Eric C. “Shakespeare's Anxious Epistemology: Love's Labour's Lost and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 45, no. 1 (spring 2003): 20-41.

Argues that Shakespeare used Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as a source for his Love's Labour's Lost.

Ellis, Herbert A. “Semantic Puns in Love's Labour's Lost.” In Shakespeare's Lusty Punning in Love's Labour's Lost, pp. 34-111. The Hague: Mouton, 1973.

Provides a meticulous glossary of the puns used in Love's Labour's Lost.

Hehl, Ursula. “Elements of Narcissistic Personality Disorders in Love's Labour's Lost.” Literature and Psychology 40, nos. 1-2 (1994): 48-70.

Applies the concepts of narcissistic personality disorder to a psychoanalytic understanding of the principal male figures in Love's Labour's Lost: Berowne, Navarre, and Armado.

Montrose, Louis Adrian. “Comic Shapes.” In “Curious-Knotted Garden”: The Form, Themes, and Contexts of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, pp. 9-27. Salzburg, Austria: Institut für Englishe Sprache und Literatur, 1977.

Explicates the comic structure of Love's Labour's Lost.

Woudhuysen, H. R., ed. Introduction to The Arden Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost, by William Shakespeare, pp. 1-87. Walton-on-Thames, England: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1998.

Provides an extensive overview of Love's Labour's Lost, including a discussion of its history, literary elements, and sources.