TY - BOOK AU - Shakespeare,William AU - Guizot,François TI - Peines d'amour perdues: Comédie AV - PR PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Comedy plays KW - Courts and courtiers -- Drama KW - Princesses -- Drama KW - Navarre (Kingdom) -- Drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peines_d%27amour_perdues; Release date is 2006-09-09; Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Peines d'amour perdues" by William Shakespeare is a comedy written around 1595-1596. The King of Navarre and three companions vow to devote themselves to philosophy and renounce all frivolous pursuits. Their pact faces immediate challenge when the Princess of France arrives with three ladies-in-waiting, and the men fall hopelessly in love. Filled with wordplay, puns, and literary references, this witty play explores the conflict between noble intentions and human desire, building toward unexpected complications and a surprisingly solemn conclusion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19227 ER -