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Love Lessons … and Language in “Love’s Labor’s Lost”

Despite its alliteration, the title of this early Shakespeare comedy does not exactly roll off the tongue. It trips and twists the tongue. Oh so innocently, it would seem, and yet I’m wondering now, having come to the end of the drama, if it’s a kind of trap meant to catch the eye and the mind.

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Chatbot Shakespeare

Can you identify the play from which the following soliloquy fragment was drawn?

“…Oh, what a tangled web …

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