Love's Labour's Won

Love's Labour's Won, alternatively written Love's labour's wonne, is the name of a play written by William Shakespeare before 1598. However, it is not known if this play has been lost, or if the title is an alternative name for a known play. The Elizabethan author Francis Meres lists several of Shakespeare's plays in Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598). His list of comedies reads as follows: This tells us that Love's Labour's Won was a comedy an... more

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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works,...
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