SOURCE: “A Sense of the Ending: ‘Our wooing doth not end like an old play,’” in “Curious-Knotted Garden”: The Form, Themes, and Contexts of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, edited by Dr. James Hogg, Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, 1977, pp. 154-76.
In the essay below, Montrose considers the indeterminacy of the ending of Love's Labour's Lost and the thematic reconciliation of actuality and imagination in the play's closing songs.
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