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020			_a978-9821-6495-9
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050			_aGC PR 2848 .S53 1996
100			_aShakespeare, William
245		0	_aLove's labor's lost / _cWilliam Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon and Schuster Paperbacks _cc1996
300			_a291 pages : _billustrations : _c18 cm.
365			_b480
504			_aIncludes notes and appendices.
520			_aAt first glance, Shakespeare's early comedy Love's Labor's Lost simply entertains and amuses. Four young men (one of them a king) withdraw from the world for three years, taking an oath that they will have nothing to do with women. The King of Navarre soon learns, however, that the Princess of France and her ladies are about to arrive. Although he lodges them outside of his court, all four men fall in love with the ladies, abandoning their oaths and setting out to win their hands. The laughter triggered by this story is augmented by subplots involving a braggart soldier, a clever page, illiterate servants, a parson, a schoolmaster, and a constable so dull that he is named Dull. Letters and poems are misdelivered, confessions are overheard, entertainments are presented, and language is played with, and misused, by the ignorant and learned alike. At a deeper level, Love's Labor's Lost also teases the mind. The men begin with the premise that women either are seductresses or goddesses. The play soon makes it clear, however, that the reality of male-female relations is different. That women are not identical to men's images of them is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays. In Love's Labor's Lost it receives one of its most pressing examinations
650			_a Courts and courtiers Courts and courtiers Drama DRAMA English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama Love's labour's lost (Shakespeare, William) Navarre (Kingdom) Navarre (Kingdom) Drama
700			_aMowat, Barbara, A and Werstine, Paul
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