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 of Shakespeare
surface form: First Folio
language English
literaryPeriod English Renaissance
surface form: Elizabethan era
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
this entity surface form: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Patrick Doyle composedForFilm Love's Labour's Lost
this entity surface form: Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000 film)
First Folio of Shakespeare containsWork Love's Labour's Lost
this entity surface form: Love’s Labour’s Lost
works of William Shakespeare includesWork Love's Labour's Lost
subject surface form: Works of William Shakespeare
Chester Kallman notableWork Love's Labour's Lost
this entity surface form: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Chester Kallman wroteLibrettoFor Love's Labour's Lost
this entity surface form: Love’s Labour’s Lost