Love's Labour's Lost (1925) Yale
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NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Copyright, 1925
By Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America
First published, April, 1925
Second printing, August, 1954
TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
PAGE | |
The Text | 1 |
Act I | 1 |
Act II | 19 |
Act III | 29 |
Act IV | 37 |
Act V | 65 |
Notes | 107 |
Appendix A. Sources of the Play | 127 |
Appendix B. Shakespeare's Original Text and His Revision | 132 |
Appendix C. The History of the Play | 136 |
Appendix D. The Text of the Present Edition | 142 |
Appendix E. Suggestions for Collateral Reading | 145 |
Index of Words Glossed | 147 |
The facsimile opposite reproduces the frontispiece to 'Love's Labour's Lost' in Rowe's edition of Shakespeare (1709). The scene depicted is the visit of the pretended Muscovites near the opening of V. ii.
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THE YALE SHAKESPEARE
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of the
Department of English, Yale University,
on the Fund
Given to the Yale University Press in 1917
by the Members of the
Kingsley Trust Association
(Scroll and Key Society of Yale College)
To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
of the Founding of the Society
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