SOURCE: “The Anatomy of Masculine Desire in Love's Labor's Lost,” in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4, Winter, 1992, 430-49.
In the essay below, Breitenberg challenges the notion that the play's ending emphasizes the power the women hold over the men of Love's Labour's Lost. Rather, Breitenberg maintains, the men are empowered through their Petrarchan idealization of the women.
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