A play titled for this concept revolves around a highway robber who, like his Protestant creator George Farquhar, moves from Derry to London. This concept titles a play in which the protagonist takes the identity of Truth to avoid signing a contract that would give his inheritance to Ben. In a different play titled for this concept, Alexas denies a man’s prophesying about the doomed fate of Egypt. Angelica, the niece of the astrologer Foresight, becomes engaged to Sampson Legend in a (*) William Congreve play whose title contains this concept twice. Serapion delivers a eulogy for Mark Antony and Cleopatra in a John Dryden play titled for this concept, the first word in the title of a comedy about the King of Navarre’s abstinence from women. For 10 points, name this concept that, in the title of a Shakespeare comedy, has its Labour’s Lost. ■END■
ANSWER: love [or Love’s Labour Lost; or All for Love; or Love for Love; or Love and the Bottle]
<Noah Sheidlower, British Literature>
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