![]() The courtiers, both in their sparring and wooing (and it is often difficult to tell which is which) engage in so much wordplay that they confuse each other and themselves. If so, it is truer of Love's Labor's Lost than of any other play in the canon. ![]() It could be argued that one of the themes of Shakespeare's plays is the glories and failures of language itself. The comic characters also engage in continual wordplay, each specific to his stock type: fustian braggadocio, pedantic latinate quibblin ![]()
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