Love's labour's lost
Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1868
79 pages
The plays of William Shakespeare ; N 4
Softcover used book in good condition. Book contains a corner sticker and on the title page inscriptions made with ink pen and some property stamps.
Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn (break their oath). In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the Princess's father, and all weddings are delayed for a year. The play draws on themes of masculine love and desire, reckoning and rationalisation, and reality versus fantasy