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Love's Labour's Lost

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noun

  1. a comedy (1594–95?) by Shakespeare.


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Love’s Labour’s Lost Staged reading of the Bard’s romantic fable.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2019

A couple of years after Weinstein had made his offer he was playing Iago in the West End and Berowne in the National Theatre’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2016

Love's Labour's Lost, directed and adapted by Alex Timbers with songs by Michael Friedman, a founding associate artist of The Civilians.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2013

However, it could be that at the end of that son’s labors, you’d wish he’d spent less time analyzing Love's Labour’s Lost and more time getting some skills that resulted in a paycheck.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2012

But as we were climbing onto the barge, she came running down the landing stairs, clothed in her costume from Love’s Labour’s Lost, her skirts lifted so high we could see her ankles.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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