Three Early Comedies
Love's Labor's Lost
Farce and fun follow when a young king and his three friends vow to give up women for a year -- just as a pretty princess and her three ladies-in-waiting arrive -- in a delightful play that ends with one of Shakespeare's loveliest songs.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
In this lyrical comedy, two friends are infatuated with the same woman, while a jilted girl disguised as a boy and a clownish servant with a raffish mutt set the scene for laughter and a timeless story of love.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Shakespeare's famous rogue, Falstaff, woos two married women with identical love letters -- and becomes the focus of a hilarious comedy when the women conspire to teach him a lesson.
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