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Partial list of plays from Christopher Hunt 's inventory. From top: marchant of vennis, taming of a shrew, knak to know a knave, knak to know an honest man, loves labor lost, loves labor won .

Love's Labour's Won is the name of a play written by William Shakespeare before 1598. The play appears to have been published by 1603, but no copies are known to have survived. Onetheory holds that it is a lost work, possibly a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost . Another theory isthat the title is an alternative name for a known Shakespeare play.

[edit ] Theories and evidence

The first mention of the play occurs in Francis Meres Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598) inwhich he lists a dozen Shakespeare plays. His list of Shakespearean comedies reads:

"for Comedy, witnes his Ge[n]tleme[n] of Verona , his Errors , his Love's labors lost , his Love's labours wonne , his Midsummers night dreame , & his Merchant of Venice ".

Shakespeare scholars have several theories about the play. The first is that Love's Labour's Won may have been a lost sequel to Love's Labour's Lost , depicting the further adventures of the Kingof Navarre, Berowne, Longaville, and Dumain, whose marriages were delayed at the end of

Love's Labour's Lost .[1] In the final moments of Love's Labour's Lost the weddings thatcustomarily close Shakespeare's comedies are unexpectedly deferred for a year without anyobvious purpose for the plot, which would allow for the events of a sequel.

Another longtime theory held that Love's Labour's Won was an alternative name for The Taming

of the Shrew , which had been written several years earlier and is noticeably missing from Meres'list. However, in 1953, Solomon Pottesman, a London based antiquarian book dealer andcollector, discovered the August 1603 book list of the stationer Christopher Hunt , which lists as

printed in quarto :

"marchant of vennis, taming of a shrew, ... loves labor lost, loves labor won."

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The find provided evidence that the play might be a unique work that had been published but lostand not an early title of The Taming of the Shrew .[2]

Yet another possibility is that the name is an alternative title for another Shakespearean comedynot listed by Meres or Hunt. [3] Much Ado About Nothing , commonly believed to be written

around 1598,[4]

is often suggested. For example, Henry Woudhuysen's Arden edition (ThirdSeries) of Love's Labour's Lost lists a number of striking similarities between the two plays.However, Much Ado about Nothing is also listed under another alternative title, Bendick and

Beatrice , in several book seller's catalogues, and it is unlikely that it would have been known bytwo alternative titles.Empty citation ( help )Leslie Hotson speculated that Love's Labour's Won was the former title of Troilus and Cressida , pointing out that Troilus and Cressida did notappear in Palladis Tamia , a view that has been criticised by Kenneth Palmer for requiring a"forced interpretation of the play". In addition, the play is generally considered to have beenwritten c. 1602. [5]

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