Love's Labour's Won has been missing since it was mentioned in 1603Credit: The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Love's Labour's Won has been missing since it was mentioned in 1603Credit: The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hmmm...
They should just pay attention to Dr Who...
As far as Love's Labour's Won, there has been debate whether that is a different play, or just another name for Love's Labour's Lost.
Lost Love’s Labor Won bkmk...
To find or not to find.
This is surely racist of the BBC. To spend all that time and energy to find a play by an old, white, oppressor guy. That time would have been better spent earning money for reparations.
It’s just the same play written and spoken backwards.
I sent the link to your thread on to Mac, McDonald Jackson, the NZ Professor Emeritus with whom I worked for 3 years on the Night Before Christmas authorship issue. Mac is one of the big Shakespearean experts. Mac’s reply:
On Love’s Labour Won: Yes. Attempts to identify it with an existing Shakespeare play are not convincing. There is also a lost play called Guise by John Webster (whose Works I co-edited). I’ve sometimes fantasized about finding it in the library of some stately home. The mystery of LLW is that even if all copies of the quarto perished, why didn’t the compilers of the First Folio have a manuscript of the play from which to print it in that volume.
Cardenio: Those of us who have studied the problem agree that Lewis Theobald’s Double Falsehood was based on Cardenio, that Cardenio was a collaboration by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, and that some writing by each of those two playwright survived into Theobald’s. Gary Taylor’s reconstruction of Cardenio was performed in a production directed in Wellington NZ by David Carnegie, one of my two Webster co-editors.
