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Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

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Open Library OL362686W

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. Love's Labour's Lost stays with the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting.

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