What is the primary theme of 'Love's Labour's Lost'?
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Correct answer: The impossibility of escaping love through academic retreat
The King of Navarre and his lords swear an oath to avoid women and study for three years. The arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies immediately renders their oath impossible to keep, satirizing intellectual pedantry and the futility of denying love.
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