Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Love's Labor's Lost

Shakespeare, William, published 1598 · comedy · Adult Professional;Professional · other editions of this work: 316 (1623)

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TitleLove's Labor's Lost
AuthorShakespeare, William
Publication year (edition)1598
Genre (British Drama)comedy
Genre group (comparison)comedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: comedy
Play typeAdult Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 150 · edition 315 · TCP A68726 · DEEP 256
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)c.1595
First performance (BritDrama)1596 [1594-1597]
Company (BritDrama)Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Company (Annals)Unknown
Theaterbefore the Court;
PrinterWhite, William
PublisherBurby, Cuthbert
FormatQuarto
STC22294
Greg150a
Genre (Annals)Comedy
Genre (BritDrama)Comedy
BritDrama no.1031
Title pageA PLEASANT Conceited Comedie CALLED, Loues labors lost.
Title-page performance noteAs it was presented before her Highnes this last Christmas.
Corpus buildcorpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 1931 · witness single

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10–57476unassignedLET Fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live registered upon our brazen Tombs, And then grace us, in the…
258–120514unassignedCom'on then, I will swear to study so, To know the thing I am forbid to know: As thus, to study where I well m…
3121–184512T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.70Four days ago. Let's see the penalty▪ On pain of losing her tongue. Who devised this penalty? Marry that did I…
4185–210512T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation0.71How low so ever the matter, I hope in God for high words▪ A high hope for a low heaven God grant us patience T…
5211–247525T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.69For Iaquenetta (so is the weaker vessel called) which I apprehended with the aforesaid Swain, I keep her as a …
6248–279509unassignedI will have that subject newly writ over, that I may example my digression by some mighty president. Boy, I do…
7280–342479unassignedNow Madam summon up your dearest spirits, Cosider who the King your father sends: To whom he sends, and what's…
8343–404482unassignedAn other of these Su●dentes at that time, Was there with him, if I have heard a truth. Berowne they call him, …
9405–474498unassignedMadame, your father here doth intimate, The payment of a hundred thousand Crowns, Being but the one half of, o…
10475–539498unassignedA woman sometimes, and you saw her in the light. Perchance light in the light. I desire her name? She hath but…
11540–579500T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.76You are too hard for me. Warble child, make passionate my sense of hearing. Concolinel. Sweet Air, go tenderne…
12580–625478unassignedA wonder Master, here's a Costard broken in a shin. Some enigma, some riddle, ●ome, thy lenvoy begin. No enigm…
13626–685504unassignedMy sweet ours of man's flesh, my in-come Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration, O that's the latin…
14686–745496unassignedWas that the king that spurred his horse so hard, Against the steep up rising of the hill? I know not, but I t…
15746–779498unassignedBY heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible: true that thou art beauteous, truth itself that thou art lo…
16780–814486unassignedYou still wrangle with her Boyet, and she strikes at the brow. But she herself is hit lower: Have I hit her no…
17815–846496unassignedTwice sodd simplicity, bis coctus, O thou monster ignorance, How deformed dost thou look. Sir he hath never fe…
18847–878486unassignedMe herele, if their Sons be ingenious, they shall want no instruction: If their Daughters be capable, I will p…
19879–894472T53 The crown: kingship claimed, resigned an0.76Sir Holofernes, this Berowne is one of the Votaries with the King, and here he hath framed a letter to a seque…
20895–954498unassignedSo sweet a kiss the golden Sun gives not, To those fresh morning drops upon the Rose, As thy eye beams, when t…
21955–1021491T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.76By earth she is not, croporall, there you lie. Her Amber heirs for foul hath amber coted. An amber coloured Ra…
221022–1083497unassignedNow step I forth to whip hypocrisy. Ah good my Liege, I pray thee pardon me. Good heart, What grace hast thou …
231084–1143478unassignedNow the number is even. True true, we are four: will these turtles be gone▪ Hence sirs, away. Walk aside the t…
241144–1192473unassignedYour Mistresses dare never come in rain, For fear their colours should be washed away. TTwere good yours did: …
251193–1225475T35 Fools, wit and railing0.74He draweth out the thread of his verbosity, finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phan…
261226–1242472unassignedThe posterior of the day, most generous sir, is liable, congruent, and measurable for the after noon: the word…
271243–1298473unassignedI'll make one in a dance, or so: or I will play on the Taber to the worthies, and let them dance the hay. Most…
281299–1361487unassignedI think no less: Dost thou not wish in heart The Chain were longer, and the Letter short. I, or I would these …
291362–1423467T14 Royal love, favour and dynastic relation0.83If to come hither, you have measured miles, And many miles: the Princess bids you tell, How many inches doth f…
301424–1482482unassignedThis fellow pecks up Wit as Pigeons Pease, And 〈◊〉 again when God doth please. He is wits peddler, and retales…
311483–1544499T35 Fools, wit and railing0.80This jest is dry to me, gentle sweet, Your wits makes wise things foolish when we greet Wtih eyes best seeing,…
321545–1606499unassignedThe fairest is confession. Were not you here but even now, disguysde? Madame, I was. And were you well advised…
331607–1665495T2 Roman politics: senate, consuls and civi0.72The conqueror is dismayed: proceed good Alexander. When in the world I lived, I was the worlds commander. Most…
341666–1724495T7 The Trojan war: conflict and its afterma0.72This cannot be Hector. he's a God or a Painter: for he makes faces. The Armipotent Mars, of Lances the almight…
351725–1789500T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.86For mine own part I breathe free breath: I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, a…
361790–1857540unassignedA time me thinks too short, To make a world-without-end bargain in: No no my Lord, your Grace is perjured much…
371858–1930503unassignedTo move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible. Mirth cannot move a soul in agon…