Love’s Labour’s Lost is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is said that the play ‘was first printed in 1658’ (http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-play-loves-labours-lost.htm) and was written relatively in the early days of the author’s writing career. It is also pointed out that the play is ‘the first play printed under the Bard’s name’ (http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/lllost1.html) and it contains some ‘signs of early composition’ (ibid), although the play is also known for its complex use of language that ‘includes considerable punning and rhyming – more rhyming than any other Shakespeare play’ (ibid). As for its story’s historical background, the former simply says the play ‘is not based on any historical events or people’ (http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-play-loves-labours-lost.htm). However, it would not be so difficult to find some clues that can connect the story and its historical background by conducting researches especially focusing on some characters’ names in the play, for example: Biron, Logaville and Dumain.
These three characters are described as ‘lords attending on the King’ (http://www.sacred-texts.com/sks/lll/lll.htm) in the Dramatis Personae section of the play. Their names are usually found just below the name of Ferdinand, another character who is described as ‘king of Navarre’ (ibid) and this normally implies that the ‘King’ three characters attend to is the ‘king’ listed just above them, in this case Ferdinand, whose name is also put on the top of the list.
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