SOURCE: "'Jack Hath Not Jill': Failed Courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare," in Shakespeare Survey, Vol. 42, 1996, pp. 1-13.
[Here, Bevington compares Love's Labour's Lost to Lyly 's Sappho and Phao, maintaining that the play's contradictory portrayal of women—as objects of lust
Act V, scene ii. Princess, Boyet, and Ladies. Frontispiece to the Hanmer edition by Francis Hayman (¡744). and of worship—leads to the characters ' unfulfilled desires and the play's unresolved ending.]
