Love's Labour's Lost

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Love's Labour's Lost is a comedic play by William Shakespeare that satirizes courtly love and intellectual pretension through witty wordplay and romantic misadventures.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Elizabethan play
comedy
play
stage work
author William Shakespeare
containsForm song
sonnet
countryOfOrigin England
dramaticCategory Shakespearean comedy
ending non-marital resolution
FirstFolioPublicationDate 1623
firstPerformanceDate 1590s
firstPublicationDate 1598
genre comedy
romantic comedy
satire
hasSequelOrRelatedWork Love's Labour's Won (lost play)
includedIn First Folio
language English
literaryPeriod Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance
mainCharacter Berowne
Boyet
Costard
Don Adriano de Armado
Dumaine
Ferdinand, King of Navarre
Holofernes
Jaquenetta
Katherine
Longaville
Maria
Moth
Princess of France
Rosaline
Sir Nathaniel
notableFeature extensive wordplay
use of puns
use of rhetorical display
settingLocation Navarre
a royal park in Navarre
structure five-act play
theme appearance versus reality
courtly love
intellectual pretension
language and wordplay
romantic misadventure
tone satirical
witty
verseForm blank verse
rhymed verse

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William Shakespeare notableWork Love's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare quartos includesEditionOf Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Patrick Doyle composedForFilm Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000 film)
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First Folio of Shakespeare containsWork Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Works of William Shakespeare includesWork Love's Labour's Lost
subject linked to: works of William Shakespeare
Chester Kallman notableWork Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Chester Kallman wroteLibrettoFor Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Annabel Scholey notableWork Love’s Labour’s Lost (stage production)
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Adrian Lester notableWork Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000 film)
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Katherine appearsIn Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Katherine appearsInAct Act 2 of Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Katherine appearsInAct Act 3 of Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Katherine appearsInAct Act 4 of Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Katherine appearsInAct Act 5 of Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Princess of France appearsIn Love's Labour's Lost
Princess of France appearsInAct Act I of Love's Labour's Lost
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Princess of France appearsInAct Act II of Love's Labour's Lost
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Princess of France appearsInAct Act III of Love's Labour's Lost
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Princess of France appearsInAct Act IV of Love's Labour's Lost
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Princess of France appearsInAct Act V of Love's Labour's Lost
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Berowne appearsInWork Love's Labour's Lost
Longaville appearsIn Love's Labour's Lost
Longaville appearsInAct Act I of Love's Labour's Lost
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Longaville appearsInAct Act II of Love's Labour's Lost
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Longaville appearsInAct Act IV of Love's Labour's Lost
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Longaville appearsInAct Act V of Love's Labour's Lost
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Dumaine appearsIn Love's Labour's Lost
Dumaine appearsInAct Act I of Love's Labour's Lost
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Dumaine appearsInAct Act II of Love's Labour's Lost
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Dumaine appearsInAct Act IV of Love's Labour's Lost
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Dumaine appearsInAct Act V of Love's Labour's Lost
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Rosaline appearsInWork Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Rosaline appearsInAct Act 1 of Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Rosaline appearsInAct Act 2 of Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Rosaline workByAuthor Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
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Maria appearsIn Love's Labour's Lost
Maria fictionalUniverse Love's Labour's Lost universe
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Boyet appearsIn Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Boyet appearsInAct Act I of Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Don Adriano de Armado appearsIn Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Costard appearsIn Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Costard workTitle Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Moth appearsIn Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Sir Nathaniel appearsIn Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel fictionalUniverse Love's Labour's Lost
Jaquenetta appearsIn Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Won isCompanionTo Love's Labour's Lost
subject linked to: Love's Labour's Won (lost play)
Love's Labour's Won isAssociatedWith Love's Labour's Lost
subject linked to: Love's Labour's Won (lost play)
Ferdinand, King of Navarre appearsIn Love's Labour's Lost
Philip Quast notableWork Love’s Labour’s Lost
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