Love's Labor's Lost | France (Princess of France)

The princess of France is the moral center of the play. She arrives at the court of the king of France just after he and his lords have sworn an oath to remain celibate and study together in a courtly academy for three years. Because they also swear to avoid the company of women entirely for those three years, and the king issues a proclamation forbidding women in his court, the princess and her three ladies are forced to camp in a field on the grounds of the court rather than be lodged inside. The princess, who greets most of the play's actions with a practical and straightforward...

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