Love’s Labour's Lost is one of Shakespeare’s early plays, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s. Notably, it is his only story that does not have a plot derived from an already existing source, which has led some scholars to believe that it may be Shakespeare’s only original plotline. The characters, however, may be loosely based on historical figures: a contemporary of Shakespeare’s, Henri King of Navarre, was frequently gossiped about in Elizabethan circles, and two of his supporters were named Duc de Biron and Duc de Longueville (Berowne and Longaville are two of Ferdinand of
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