Love's Labors Confounded

Love's Labors Lost is all about a group of noblemen, and a group of noblewomen, and the battle of wits that ensues.  As it is often said, all's fair in love and war, and in this play there is plenty of each.  It is interesting to see the women get the better of the men, even as the men are talking in ways to suggest how intelligent they are.

Another way to describe this play is a battle of the sexes, where the women definitely come out the victors.  There is a series that follows this theme: Boys/Girls Battle. 
Here is a picture of the first book, which can be found on Amazon.

In the series, a family of girls moves in next to a family of boys.  The boys resent the girls, because their best friends used to live there.  They decide to prank the girls, and chaos ensues.  There is no clear winner in the end, although eventually the two groups of kids become friends. 

In Shakespeare's play, the women engage the men in battle, but the men hardly seem aware that they are being played with.  The men don't appear to catch the women's sarcastic remarks and witty barbs.  Although nobody cross-dresses, the women are portrayed as equals to the men, which was rare in Elizabethan society.  Once again, Shakespeare has played with the traditional roles of men and women in order to humorously make a point.