Euphuism
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Euphuism is an elegant literary style that was briefly in fashion during the Elizabethan era. The euphuism style employed the frequent use of alliteration, antithesis, balance, and simile, with refere
Title page of Campaspe by John Lyly, 1584
Love's Labour's Lost
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Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King
Title page of the first quarto (1598)
Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 3, by Thomas Stothard (c. 1800)
The first page of the play in the First Folio (1623)
Frontispiece from Loues labors loſt, 1598 from the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection