Labors LostLabors Lost offers a fascinating and wide ranging account of working women's behind the scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Natasha Korda reveals that the purportedly all male professional stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women of all stripes, including ordinary crafts and tradeswomen who supplied costumes, props, and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and widows who