Love's Labor's Lost | Navarre (King Ferdinand of Navarre)
The king of Navarre is the leader of the so-called academy of lords, all of whom, at the play's opening, take a vow to be celibate and absorb themselves, in scholarship for three years. In the course of the play, however, he falls in love with the princess of France. The king is motivated at first by the desire to transcend the world of mortality: he wants to live forever in men's memories. He refers in his opening speech to "cormorant devouring Time" (I.i.4), as if time itself were a predatory creature. He seems to believe that only scholarship and study will bring time to a halt; that...
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