The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel   The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.   For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.   “Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.”  —Marlon James, author of  A Brief History of Seven Killings “I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students.” — Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University   William Shakespeare  was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.  A. R.   Braunmuller  is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford ( King John ) and Cambridge ( Macbeth ) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare.  Stephen Orgel  is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include  Imagining Shakespeare ,  The Authentic Shakespeare ,  Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England  and  The Illusion of Power . Love's Labor's Lost ¥    I.1 Enter Ferdinand King of Navarre, Berowne, Longaville, and Dumaine. king Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live registered upon our brazen tombs 2 And then grace us in the disgrace of death, 3 When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, 4 Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy 5 That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge 6 And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors-for so you are That war against your own affections 9 And the huge army of the world's desires- 10 Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: 11 Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court shall be a little academe, 13 Still and contemplative in living art. 14 You three-Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville- Have sworn for three years' term to live with me My fellow scholars, and to keep those statutes That are recorded in this schedule here. 18 Your oaths are passed; and now subscribe your names, 19 That his own hand may strike his honor down 20 That violates the smallest branch herein. 21 If you are armed to do as sworn to do, 22 Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too. longaville I am resolved. 'Tis but a three years' fast. The mind shall banquet though the body pine. Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits 26 Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. dumaine My loving lord, Dumaine is mortified. 28 The grosser manner of these world's delights He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves. 30 To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die, With all these living in philosophy. 32 berowne I can but say their protestation over. 33 So much, dear liege, I have already sworn, 34 That is, to live and study here three years. But there are other strict observances: As not to see a woman in that term, Which I hope well is not enrolld there; 38 And one day in a week to touch no food, And but one meal on every day beside, 40 The which I hope is not enrolld there; And then to sleep but three hours in the night, And not be seen to wink of all the day 43 (When I was wont to think no harm all night 44 And make a dark night too of half the day), Which I hope well is not enrolld there. O, these