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Love's Labour's Lost

Chapter 2: Dramatis Personæ
By William Shakespeare
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The play follows a group of young nobles who pledge to devote themselves to study and renounce women, but an unexpected arrival of a noblewoman and her retinue provokes swift romantic entanglements. The action balances witty verbal sparring and elaborate entertainments with rustic comic subplots and a foppish suitor, exposing the gap between vows and desire and satirizing pedantry. Scenes of masque, mistaken identity, and wordplay lead to apparent betrothals, only for a sobering announcement to postpone celebrations, leaving a mix of comic resolution and chastened reflection.

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Title: Love's Labour's Lost

Author: William Shakespeare

Release date: October 1, 1998 [eBook #1510]
Most recently updated: September 18, 2025

Language: English

Credits: the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers

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LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST

by William Shakespeare

Contents

ACT I
Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park
Scene II. The park
ACT II
Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park. A pavilion and tents at a distance
ACT III
Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park
ACT IV
Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park
Scene II. The same
Scene III. The same
ACT V
Scene I. The King of Navarre’s park
Scene II. The same. Before the Princess’s pavilion

Dramatis Personæ

KING of Navarre, also known as Ferdinand

BEROWNE, Lord attending on the King
LONGAVILLE, Lord attending on the King
DUMAINE, Lord attending on the King

The PRINCESS of France

ROSALINE, Lady attending on the Princess
MARIA, Lady attending on the Princess
KATHARINE, Lady attending on the Princess
BOYET, Lord attending on the Princess

Don Adriano de ARMADO, a fantastical Spaniard
MOTH, Page to Armado
JAQUENETTA, a country wench
COSTARD, a Clown
DULL, a Constable
HOLOFERNES, a Schoolmaster
Sir NATHANIEL, a Curate
A FORESTER
MARCADÉ, a messenger from France

Lords, Blackamoors, Officers and Others, Attendants on the King and Princess.

SCENE: Navarre