Love's Labour's Lost

(Interestingly, Love's Labour's Lost is the first published play to bear Shakespeare's name on the title page, in 1598) This play is all about wooing.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

In _Love's Labour's Lost_ a passage occurs where the two seasons, Spring and Winter, vie with each other in extolling the cuckoo and the owl.

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

Another phase of Act V. Scene ii. of _Love's Labour's Lost_ appears to be a reflection of an affair in the life of the individual whom

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

The frequent references to the characters of the _Iliad_ in this act and scene of _Love's Labour's Lost_ link the period of its insertion with the date of the original composition of _Troilus and Cressida_ in, or about, 1598, to which time I have also assigned the revision of _Love's

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

In _Love's Labour's Lost_ the question of complexion was identical, though the parts were reversed.

A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

It is abundantly certain, from internal evidence, that the play now in hand also underwent revisal, and this too after a much longer interval than in the case of _Love's Labour's Lost_.

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

In the early _Love's Labour's Lost_ are more than one thousand rhyming five-stress iambic lines; in _The Tempest_ are only two; in _The Winter's Tale_ not one.

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590