Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost
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"Love's Labour's Lost" by William Shakespeare is a comedy written in the mid-1590s. The King of Navarre and three companions vow to avoid women for three years to pursue study and fasting. Their oath crumbles when the Princess of France and her ladies arrive, sparking romantic entanglements. Through disguises, mistaken identities, and witty wordplay, the men pursue the women—only to face an unconventional ending when sudden news forces the ladies to demand a year's proof of devotion before any weddings can proceed.
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William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor, born in Stratford-upon-Avon to a glovemaker and educated no further than the grammar school there. In London he became a sharer — a part-owner — in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and in the Globe theatre, which is what made him money; the plays were the company's stock rather than literature, and he took no part in printing them. Two fellow actors collected thirty-six of them in the First Folio of 1623, seven years after his death, and eighteen plays exist only because they did. He also wrote 154 sonnets.