The cast of Love's Labour's Lost
The people who make Love's Labour's Lost move — what they want, who they love, who they hate, and how each one fits the story. Tap any name to read more.
Son of the late King of Navarres
Daughter of the King of Frances
Other characters
Biron
Lord of Navarre; witty critic of the academy; defender of love as the truest study
Don Adriano de Armado
A fantastical Spanish braggart; affected, verbose, and absurdly self-important
Costard
A rustic clown; honest, direct, and unburdened by pretense or learning
Boyet
Courtly messenger and wit; the Princess's attendant and strategist
Moth
Armado's witty page; a clever boy who deflates his master's pretensions through sharp wordplay · Young boy, likely pre-teen
Rosaline
A lady of France; witty, sharp-tongued arbiter of truth and penance
Holofernes
Pedantic schoolmaster and organizer of the Nine Worthies pageant
Dumain
Young lord of Navarre; suitor to Katharine
Longaville
One of the King's three lords; a witty courtier caught between ambition and desire
Katharine
A lady of the French court; witty, sharp-tongued, and morally grounded
Maria
Lady attendant to the Princess of France; witty and perceptive observer of courtship and folly
Sir Nathaniel
A parish curate and learned man; pedantic, well-intentioned, easily wounded
Dull
Constable and comic relief; a well-meaning but dim-witted officer of the law
Jaquenetta
Country dairymaid, caught between the courtly world and rural simplicity
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