SOURCE: McLay, Catherine M. “The Dialogues of Spring and Winter: A Key to the Unity of Love's Labour's Lost.” Shakespeare Quarterly 18, no. 2 (spring 1967): 119-27.
In the following essay, McLay maintains that the songs sung by Spring and Winter at the close of Love's Labour's Lost reflect and expand the play's major themes: the movement “from the artificial to the natural, from illusion to reality, from folly to wisdom.”
