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- Title
The ‘Fox and Ape’ Verse in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.
- Authors
Breuer, Horst
- Abstract
The article discusses the play "Love's Labour's Lost" by William Shakespeare, with particular focus given to lines referencing foxes and apes. Contemporary imagery associating foxes with deceit and apes with lechery is examined, and the possibility that the lines reference an affair between the explorer Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of Queen Elizabeth I's maids of honour, is touched on.
- Subjects
LOVE'S Labour's Lost (Play : Shakespeare); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; APES in literature; FOXES in literature; SYMBOLISM of animals
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2012, Vol 59, Issue 4, p531
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjs143