English Department

at the University of Michigan-Flint

Living Learning, A Labor of Love

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            In Love’s Labor’s Lost, an early comedy by William Shakespeare that, like so many of his plays, is peopled with highly literate characters (“bookmen”) and illiterate “clowns” who say of the Latin sprinkled language of their social betters:  “They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol’n the scraps.”  Many of Shakespeare’s