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Most scholars believe the play was written 1594―1595, but not later than 1598.<ref>Woudhuysen, H. R., ed. ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (London: Arden Shakespeare, 1998): 59.</ref> ''Love's Labour's Lost'' was first published in [[book size|quarto]] in 1598 by the bookseller [[Cuthbert Burby]]. The title page states that the play was "Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere," which has suggested to some scholars a revision of an earlier version.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.s4ulanguages.com/william.html |title=William |access-date=2016-07-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403032304/http://www.s4ulanguages.com/william.html |archive-date=3 April 2016}} See title page of facsimile of the original 1st edition (1598)</ref>
Dating to 1598, [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh University]]'s manuscript is one of the earliest known copies of the work and according to its title page, is the same version as that which was presented to [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth I]] the previous Christmas, in 1597. It is in quarto format and was donated to [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh University]] between 1626 and 1636 by former student William Drummond, making it part of the university's first literature collection.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Loves Labours Lost, 1598, f.1r |url=https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/UoEsha~1~1~31197~100318:Loves-Labours-Lost,-1598,-f-1r |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=images.is.ed.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref>
The play next appeared in print in the [[First Folio]] in 1623, with a later quarto in 1631. ''[[Love's Labour's Won]]'' is considered by some to be a lost sequel.<ref>Woudhuysen, H. R. (ed.) ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (London: Arden, 1998), pp. 80–81</ref><ref>Carroll, William C. (ed.) ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 39–40</ref>
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