Love's Labour's Lost (1925) Yale

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LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

EDITED BY

WILBUR L. CROSS

AND

TUCKER BROOKE

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.

Love's Labour's Lost (1709) frontispiece.jpg

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Published under the Direction

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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