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
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.
A Knack to Know a Knave
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A Knack to Know a Knave is a 1592 play closely associated with the principal performers Edward Alleyn and William Kempe. The play is a comic morality tale designed to highlight the talents of the cele
Love's Labour's Won
…discovered the August 1603 book list of the stationer Christopher Hunt, which lists as printed in quarto: marchant of vennis, taming of a shrew, knak to know a knave [unknown author], knak to know an honest man [unknown author], loves labor lost, loves labor won. The find provided evidence that the play might be a…
The title page of a Knack to Know a Knave in its 1594 quarto