Love’s Labour’s Lost: Quick Facts

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Title page of the 1598 quarto of Love's Labour's Lost.

performance of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost

Etching of William Shakespeare and Lord Chamberlain's Men performing Love's Labour's Lost on stage before Queen Elizabeth I, who is seated among courtiers and attendants.

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