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Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare is a comedy about four Lords, led by the King of Navarre, who vow to study and avoid women for three years but soon fall in love with the Princess of France and her three attendant ladies. Their attempts to woo the women, amidst humorous subplots and mistaken identities, explore the folly of their oath and the complexities of love. The text includes period-typical stereotyping around ethnicity, cultural origins, and misogynistic attitudes.