Love's Labour's Lost (1594 Shakespeare), play
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Love's Labour's Lost (1594) is a play by William Shakespeare.
Abstract
In the final act of the comedy, the comic characters perform a play to entertain the nobles, where they represent the Nine Worthies, including Judas Maccabeus.
Editions
The comedy, written around 1594, is contained in the editio princeps of Shakespeare's works, published in 1623, and ever since have been reprinted uncountable times in the original text and in translation.
Performance history
Premiered around 1594. Often performed up to the present.
External links
Categories:
- 1594
- Made in the 1590s
- Fiction--1500s
- Fiction--English
- Literature--1500s
- Literature--English
- Plays
- English language--1500s
- Second Temple Studies--1500s
- Second Temple Studies--English
- Second Temple Studies--Fiction
- Maccabees (subject)
- Maccabees--fiction (subject)
- Maccabees--literature (subject)
- Nine Worthies (subject)
- Judas Maccabeus (subject)
- Judas Maccabeus--literature (subject)
- Top 1500s