A lost section of “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” a comedy written by William Shakespeare, has been rediscovered, revealing a song mocking the sexual inadequacy of one of the play’s male characters.
The rediscovery of this section did not come from a long-lost manuscript, but rather through the analysis of a mysterious one-word line in the play that has long mystified scholars.
Written in the 1590s, the play was performed before Queen Elizabeth I. In the play, a man named Ferdinand, the King of Navarre (in northern Spain), establishes a law banning men in his court from having sex, or even meeting with a woman, for three years while he and his retainers undertake scholarly studies. Ferdinand believes the studies will be more successful if the people around him abstain from sex. Read more.
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