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James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].

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Introductory matter

PRELIMINARY REMARKS.

I have not hitherto discovered any novel on which this comedy appears to have been founded; and yet the story of it has most of the features of an ancient romance. Steevens.

I suspect that there is an error in the title of this play, which I believe, should be—“Love's Labours Lost.” M. Mason.

Love's Labour's Lost, I conjecture to have been written in 1594. See An Attempt to ascertain the Order of Shakspeare's Plays. Malone.

The first edition was published in 4to. in 1598, W. W. for Cuthbert Burby. Boswell.

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PERSONS REPRESENTED Ferdinand, King of Navarre. Biron² ^note [Berowne]. A Lord, attending on the King. Longaville, A Lord, attending on the King. Dumain, A Lord, attending on the King. Boyet, A Lord, attending on the Princess of France. Mercade, A Lord, attending on the Princess of France. Don Adriano de Armado, a fantastical Spaniard. Sir Nathaniel, a curate. Holofernes, a schoolmaster. Dull, a constable. Costard, a clown. Moth, page to Armado. A Forester. Princess of France. Rosaline, Lady, attending on the Princess. Maria, Lady, attending on the Princess. Katharine, Lady, attending on the Princess. Jaquenetta, a country wench. Officers and others, attendants on the King and Princess. [Lord], [Forester] SCENE, Navarre.

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LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST.
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