Love’s Labour’s Lost (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1598
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: Sixteenth century
- Setting: Navarre, Spain
- Genres: Drama, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Love or romance, Mistaken or secret identity, Kings, queens, or royalty, Sixteenth century, Spain or Spanish people, Nobility
- Locales: Spain, Navarre, Spain
Characters Discussed
Berowne (beh-REWN), a witty, sophisticated young lord in the court of King Ferdinand of Navarre. Although he joins his monarch’s idealistic academy, he warns his companions of the folly of study for its own sake and advises them to seek wisdom in the contemplation of feminine beauty. He delights in words, exchanging puns and rhymes with his friends and waxing rhapsodic when he falls in love. He meets his match in Rosaline and swears that he will henceforth woo with “rustic yeas and honest kersey noes.” She orders him to temper his ironic wit with...
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William Shakespeare (Censorship--Ready Reference series)William Shakespeare (Cyclopedia of World Authors)William Shakespeare: The Poet (Poetry)William Shakespeare: The Dramatist (Magill’s Choice: Shakespeare)William Shakespeare: The Man (Magill’s Choice: Shakespeare)
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