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A Comedy of Fools While Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost deals with such typically serious themes as love and the quest for knowledge, its ridiculous situations, unlikely characters and clever use of words mark it as a comedy. Throughout the play, Shakespeare presents the viewer with situations that are so implausible as to be comical. Furthermore, several of the play’s characters have only one purpose: to amuse us by their silliness and foolishness. Finally, humor is provided through many instances of verbal irony, particularly when certain characters use words that have a double meaning. Love’s Labour’s Lost centers around four young men, one of whom is King, and around their decision to reject outside influences such as women, sleep, and food in order to concentrate solely on study. However, their serious and noble attempt turns comical when the Princess of France arrives at the court with her ladies. The men immediately find themselves in love and secretly trying to court the women. The audience is amused at how quickly the men reject their vows, and at how each man thinks he is the only one in love, yet all four men stumble over themselves in an attempt to woo the ladies’ hearts.
Approximate Word count = 793
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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