title: Love's Labor's Lost
title_page_title: <i>A</i> PLEASANT  Conceited Comedie CALLED, Loues labors lost.
title_page_author: Newly corrected and augmented <i>By W. Shakespere</i>.
title_page_performance: As it was presented before her Highnes this  last Christmas.
title_page_imprint: Imprinted at London  by <i>W. W.</i> for <i>Cutbert Burby</i>. 1598.
stationer_entries_in_register: Jan 22, 1607: Transferred from Cuthbert Burby to Nicholas Ling: "Loues Labour Loste."<br />Nov 19, 1607: Transferred from Nicholas Ling to John Smethwick: "Loues labour Lost".<br />Aug 24, 1642: Transferred from John Smethwick decd. to Francis Smethwick: "salvo iure cuiuscunq<i>ue</i> ... Loues Labour lost."<br />Sep 14, 1642: Transferred from Francis Smethwick to Miles Flesher: "Loues labour lost."
stationer_additional_notes: There may have been a previous edition printed in 1597 that is no longer extant and is therefore not included in DEEP; see Andrew Murphy, <i>Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), 461n1. 
transcript_modern_spelling: A pleasant conceited comedy called Love's labor's lost as it was presented before her highness this last Christmas newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespeare Imprinted at London by W.W. for Cuthbert Burby 1598