Comedies • c. 1595
Love's Labour's Lost: Modern English Translation & Study Guide
The King of Navarre and his lords swear to study and avoid women for three years, until the Princess of France arrives.
Read Love's Labour's Lost Side by Side
Every scene pairs the public-domain original with a line-matched, original modern-English paraphrase. Choose a scene below to begin reading.
- Act 1, Scene 1 line-by-line translation — SCENE I. The king of Navarre's park.
- Act 1, Scene 2 line-by-line translation — SCENE II. The same.
- Act 2, Scene 1 line-by-line translation — SCENE I. The same.
- Act 3, Scene 1 line-by-line translation — SCENE I. The same.
- Act 4, Scene 1 line-by-line translation — SCENE I. The same.
- Act 4, Scene 2 line-by-line translation — SCENE II. The same.
- Act 4, Scene 3 line-by-line translation — SCENE III. The same.
- Act 5, Scene 1 line-by-line translation — SCENE I. The same.
- Act 5, Scene 2 line-by-line translation — SCENE II. The same.
Love's Labour's Lost study pathways
Original text source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, MIT HTML edition. MIT states that its HTML versions of the plays are placed in the public domain.