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Loves labor won

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Loves labor won

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Postby NomoneyNohoney » November 13th, 2023, 9:56 am

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2023 ... c_team=crm

Many experts believe that Love's Labour's Won would make a logical sequel to Love's Labour's Lost – a comedy about four young men who swear off women, only to accidentally fall in love...

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Re: Loves labor won

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Postby Neutrino » November 16th, 2023, 9:37 am

The debate began long before Pottesman’s discovery in 1953.

In a 1598 Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia: Wit’s Treasury wrote:

As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the beſt for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: ſo Shakeſpeare among the Engliſh is the moſt excellent in both kinds for the ſtage; for Comedy, witnes his Gétlemé of Verona, his Errors, his Loue labors loſt, his Loue labours wonne, his Midſummers night dreame, …


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