Love's labour's lost

Resource Information

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Label

Love's labour's lost

Statement of responsibility

William Shakespeare ; edited by G.R. Hibbard

Creator

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Contributor

• Hibbard, G. R., (George Richard), 1915-

Subject

• Courts and courtiers -- Drama
• Navarre (Kingdom) -- Drama
• Princesses -- Drama
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Comedies

Genre

• Drama
• Comedies

Language

eng

Summary

"Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics. In this new critical edition, Hibbard pays particular attention to this process of rehabilitation. Based on the quarto of 1598, and drawing on recent scholarly analysis, he proposes that the quarto goes back, probably by way of a "lost" quarto, to an authorial manuscript that represents the play in a state prior to "fair copy." He offers numerous original readings of difficult and disputed passages, and a helpful commentary to the play's scintillating language"--

Member of

• Works
• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Assigning source

From publisher's website

Cataloging source

UAT

Dewey number

822.3/3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR2822.A2

LC item number

H5 1998

Literary form

dramas

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

• Oxford world's classics
• Oxford Shakespeare

Target audience

adult