1. Although reference is made to a number of annotated texts ofLove's Labour's Lost, the edition used in this article for the purposes of direct quotation is William C Carroll,The New Cambridge Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost(Cambridge University Press, 2009).
2. Shakespeare's court case
3. Felicia Hardison Londré, ‘Love's Labour's Lostand the Critical Legacy’ in Felicia Hardison Londré (ed),Love's Labour's Lost: Critical Essays(Routledge, 2001) 3, 6.
4. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson,Love's Labour's Lost(Cambridge University Press, 1923).
5. HD Woudhuysen,The Arden Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost(Cengage Learning, 1998) 17.