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Women and Femininity
The women of Love's Labour's Lost are miles—no, light-years—ahead of the men. They seem older and more sophisticated. They know what's up. They're not confused little girls.
The play ends with each man running after the woman he loves, and each woman saying, "Come back in a year. No need to rush this. Time will tell." Led by the graceful, almost stoic Princess of France, the women present a feminine front that is unified, classy, and totally smart.
The Princess represents the measured, practical monarch Shakespeare might have seen in Queen Elizabeth.
Shakespeare gave Love's Labour's Lost a surprisingly feminist ending.
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