STC 24096, title page
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Creator: Robert Tofte
Title: Alba. The months minde of a melancholy louer, diuided into three parts: by R.T. Gentleman. Hereunto is added a most excellent pathetical and passionate letter, sent by Duke D’Epernoun, vnto the late French King, Henry the 3. of that name, when he was commanded from the court, and from his royall companie. Translated into English by the foresaid author
Date: At London : Printed by Felix Kingston, for Matthew Lownes, 1598.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call Number and opening: STC 24096, title page & sig. G5r
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STC 24096, signature G5 recto
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Creator: Robert Tofte
Title: Alba. The months minde of a melancholy louer, diuided into three parts: by R.T. Gentleman. Hereunto is added a most excellent pathetical and passionate letter, sent by Duke D’Epernoun, vnto the late French King, Henry the 3. of that name, when he was commanded from the court, and from his royall companie. Translated into English by the foresaid author
Date: At London : Printed by Felix Kingston, for Matthew Lownes, 1598.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call Number and opening: STC 24096, title page & sig. G5r
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Creator: Robert Tofte
Title: Alba. The months minde of a melancholy louer, diuided into three parts: by R.T. Gentleman. Hereunto is added a most excellent pathetical and passionate letter, sent by Duke D’Epernoun, vnto the late French King, Henry the 3. of that name, when he was commanded from the court, and from his royall companie. Translated into English by the foresaid author
Date: At London : Printed by Felix Kingston, for Matthew Lownes, 1598.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call Number and opening: STC 24096, title page & sig. G5r
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Heather Wolfe, "Alba: Robert Tofte mentions having seen Love's Labor's Lost in his poetry," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/241.
Folger Shakespeare Library, STC 24096. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/241.
The first description of a performance of Love’s Labor’s Lost appears in a sonnet sequence by Robert Tofte printed in 1598, the same year the play was first published. The book is now extremely rare, surviving in only two copies, one at the Folger and one at the Huntington Library. The sonnet begins “Loves Labor Lost, I once did see a Play, Ycleped [named] so.” While the play was “Comicall” to everyone else, for the poet it was “Tragick.” He complains that the acting was “not from the heart” compared to his own suffering in love.
Written by Heather Wolfe
Last updated February 23, 2020
