Guide Note:Love's Labour's Lost is a classic comedy by William Shakespeare.
Fast Facts:
- Written: 1595-1596
- No obvious sources known
- First Folio: Quarto (1598) by bookseller Cuthbert Burby
- First performance: 1597 - at Court before Queen Elizabeth I
- Adaptation performed on Broadway in 1859
- Main Characters:
- King of Navarre
- Berowne
- Dumaine
- Longaville
- Princess of France
- Rosalind
- Famous Quotes:
- Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire. 2.1
- Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing. 3.1
- He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. 4.2
- In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. 5.1