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Links to Fun and Random Facts about Love's Labours Lost -- the things that don't belong anywhere else

 

27 Letters Long....
Number play surrounding a little-known word found in our play, "honorificabilitudinitatibus."  What this site fails to mention is that this is generally credited with being the longest word known, and is taken from a medievael Latin word meaning "honorableness."

Text Count
While it may not enhance one's understanding of the play, it can be interesting to know that the word "More" appears 45 times in the text of Love's Labours Lost. 

Music from the Play
An interesting article about how Anthony Burgess used Love's Labours Lost in one of his compositions -- Fascinating!  Not really useful, but still fun trivia.

The Spleen
Again, this site is not at all useful for gaining any sort of understanding of Love's Labours Lost.  The best one can hope for is that they ask on Jeopardy which of Shakespeare's plays mention the spleen.  Fun for a trivia buff.

Court Gossip
There isn't much relevent information in this rather lengthy document, but some explaination is given as to how Shakespeare (and England, for that matter) might have been acquainted with the kingdom of Navarre, and thus have been able to use its court as the setting of Love's Labours Lost -- good historical information!

Opera
Again, this is not a help for understanding the play, but it's interesting as a trivia site....2 operas have been written based on Love's Labours Lost...check it out if you want to know more.

Beauty
Shakespeare once again makes his mark on the English language.

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