Love's Labour's Lost (1594 Shakespeare), play
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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, performances, translations
The comedy, written and performed 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.