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
Love's Labour's Won
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Love's Labour's Won is a lost play, attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, although no copies are known to have survived. Scholars dispute whet
Love's Labour's Lost
…making it part of the university's first literature collection. The play next appeared in print in the First Folio in 1623, with a later quarto in 1631. Love's Labour's Won is considered by some to be a lost sequel. The speech given by Berowne at 4.3.284–361 is potentially the longest in all of Shakespeare's plays, depending…
The only known published reference to Love's Labour's Won in Palladis Tamia
Partial list of plays from Christopher Hunt's inventory. From top: marchant of vennis, taming of a shrew, knak to know a knave, knak to know an honest man, loves labor lost, loves labor won.