LLL Annotated Bibliography

Revised Thesis: 

The inconsistencies are in Love’s Labour’s Lost, such as the divergent ending, can be explained because the play is an original story by Shakespeare and not a retelling of a familiar story. I want to prove that Shakespeare ended this play without a happy ending to reflect of the history of the times, write for a specific audience, and a show some originality in his first story he created.

Bibliography:

Social Graph:

• Roommates-Vary from English to Psycology to nursing, so I will get all degrees on the scale from familiar to completely lost
• Family-We all went and saw Hamlet together so they are all familiar with Shakespeare though not with this play. Still they are up-to-date on media and pop culture so they will have good insights
• Professors-I am taking the Tudor Sonnets class from Kim Johnson. I could probably ask her for direction and obtain social proof
• Classmates-With the blog going not I feel better knowing I can post if I get lost and need help.

New Media:

• http://bloggingshakespeare.com/shakespeares-sources-loves-labours-lost gives some history and analysis of the play
• http://www.shmoop.com/loves-labours-lost/ simplifies some of the themes and insights found in the play
• http://www.lostplays.org/index.php/Love's_Labour's_Won is about a possible sequel Shakespeare wrote to Love’s Labour’s Lost, perhaps Shakespeare planned to resolve the ending, or perhaps not
• http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm gives historical context for LLL-showing how it was the first time Shakespeare’s name was attached to a play
• http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=961 tells history of Shakespeare’s theaters, including when they were closed down for a time just before LLL went public

Social Networks:

• Facebook, though a large portion of my friends don’t speak English
• Any other groups I stumble across in my research

Traditional Scholarly Sources

• http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=dcda52a9-e41f-4f97-ac24-4ed916130da9%40sessionmgr115&vid=1&hid=110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=209001 is an article about how the titles in each of Shakespeare’s plays reflect the play itself.