A New Shakespearean Poem, North's 1574 Embassy to France, & "Love's Labour's Lost"

Navarre, Dumain, Longueville, Biron, Moth, the Princess of France and her Ladies in Waiting occur in both the Shakespeare's play and North's Embassy!

The following republishes an important section of an earlier post on Thomas North and the play, Love’s Labour’s Lost. The post describes North’s first meetings with the French King, Henry III— in 1574, at the French Court at Lyons. This serves as an important introduction to the new Shakespearean poem that has now been found, as the French King Henry I…