Love's Labour's Lost is an early comedy by William Shakespeare.
Bibliographic notesAs with Shakespeare's other plays, there is no "original" manuscript or author-supervised publication of Love's Labour's Lost. The earliest publication of the play known to exist was a quarto edition published in 1598, though there may have been an earlier edition that is now lost. The play was later included in the First Folio of 1623, published seven years after Shakespeare's death in a version that differs somewhat from the 1598 quarto version. Subsequent editions of the play may be based on these or other sources.
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Love's Labor's Lost, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu). Includes synopses, essays, early printed editions, and related memorabilia. Main text is based on the 1598 Quarto.
- Peines d'Amour Perdues (Love's Labours Lost in French), by William Shakespeare, trans. by François Guizot (Gutenberg text)
- Love's Labour's Lost (based on the 1887 Victoria edition), by William Shakespeare, ed. by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
- Loues Labors Lost (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1907), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Love's Labour's Lost (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- Look for editions of this book at your library, or elsewhere.