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The Folly of Wit and Masquerade in Love’s Labour’s Lost
2011
Overview
It seems likely that when inLove’s Labour’s LostShakespeare turned to festivity for the materials from which to fashion a comedy, he did so because he had been commissioned to produce something for performance at a noble entertainment. There can be no doubt about this in the case ofA Midsummer Night’s Dream, though just what noble wedding was graced by Shakespeare’s dramatic epithalamium no one has been able to determine.¹ But though nothing inLove’s Labour’s Lostpoints unambiguously out across the dramatic frame to an original occasion, the way the fairy blessing does at the end of
