Love's Labor's Lost | Costard
The play's clown is the first to break the court's rule against consorting with women. Don Armado catches him with Jaquenetta, has him arrested, and writes to the king reporting the clown's infraction. Costard gives his own oral version of his misdemeanor, defending it on the grounds that it was perfectly natural: "Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh" (I.i.217), he says. He thus highlights the ridiculous idealism of the king's academy. In addition, his monosyllabic interruptions during the reading of Armado's elaborate letter make the letter look equally ridiculous....
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