Love's Labor's Lost Author:William Shakespeare A courtly comedy in which four gallants are conquered by four fascinating women. Using a variety of poetic styles and dazzling verbal pyrotechnics, Shakespeare exposes the folly of pedantry, affectation, and the presumption of men who think they can forswear women. — This new edition in the Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare series has ... more »been especially prepared by two of the world's foremost Elizabethan authorities. As in the other volumes in this distinguished new series, the text is printed on right-hand pages only and all notes are placed on the page facing the text they explain. The test is also illustrated from contemporary sources« less