Love's Labor's Lost | Rosasline
One of the princess's ladies, Rosaline is the unconventionally dark beauty who so appeals to Berowne. She is as full of wit as he is, and engages both Boyet and Berowne on their own terms; she challenges the other ladies in banter as well. Although she recalls having met Berowne from the beginning (II.i.67-76), she withholds any encouragement of his love, just as do the other ladies. Especially in the latter half of the play, Rosaline emerges as the most ruthlessly mocking, and at the same time, with the princess herself, the most overtly concerned with the proper and useful application...
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