TY - BOOK AU - Shakespeare,William AU - hanley TI - Love's labours lost: the works of William Shakespheare T2 - A new variorum edition of Shakespeare U1 - 822.3 PY - 1912/// CY - New York PB - P.F. Coller and Son KW - Courts and courtiers KW - Drama KW - Princesses KW - Navarre (Kingdom) KW - fast KW - Comedies KW - gsafd N1 - "Unabridged republication of the third edition of the work first published by J.B. Lippincott Company in 1904."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Loues labour's lost -- Appendix -- The text -- Date of composition -- Source of the plot -- English criticism -- German criticism -- French criticism -- Shakespeare's word-play and puns -- Duration of action -- Costume -- Imitations -- Sundry translations of "The preyful princess pierc'd and prick'd" -- Plan of the work, etc N2 - A satire directed against intellectual pride and pedantry. The King of Navarre and three of his lords vow to spend three years in study and not to see any women. But when the Princess of France arrives with her three ladies, the men break their vow and fall in love with them ER -