SOURCE: "Promises, Promises: Love's Labor's Lost and the End of Shakespearean Comedy," in Criticism, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, Winter, 1993, pp. 41-65.
In the essay below, Chaney reviews scholarly attempts at identifying the genre of Love's Labour's Lost and argues that in this play, Shakespeare purposely avoided a conventionally happy ending.
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