SOURCE: "Love's Labour's Lost: Language and the Deferral of Desire," in Literature and Psychology, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, 1989, pp. 1-21.
In the following essay, Asp refutes the idea that the female characters spoil the play's ending by thwarting their male counterparts' desire, and instead credits the women with teaching the men how to replace defensive, repressed wittiness with open-hearted, compassionate humor.
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