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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Berowne | Berowne is an argumentative and witty nobleman, and one of the three lords who take the king's oath. Read More |
| King of Navarre | Ferdinand, the King of Navarre, is an ambitious, scholarly, and very impractical man. Read More |
| Rosaline | Rosaline is one of the Princess of France's ladies and the object of Berowne's affection. Read More |
| Princess of France | The Princess of France arrives in Navarre for political reasons but soon finds herself the focus of the King of Navarre's romantic intentions. Read More |
| Don Armado | Don Armado, a Spaniard with a tendency to use overly elaborate speech, falls in love with the dairy maid Jaquenetta. Read More |
| Boyet | Boyet is an older French lord who accompanies the Princess of France on her diplomatic mission to Navarre and acts as her advisor. |
| Costard | Costard is typical of Shakespeare's clowns—an uneducated, unrefined character whose lack of sophistication is mocked yet endearing. |
| Dull | Anthony Dull, the constable, lives up to his name as he generally fails to understand what is going on, including the other characters' wordplay. |
| Dumaine | Dumaine is one of the three lords who swears to the King of Navarre's oath to avoid women, but he falls in love with Katherine and sends her a very simple ode expressing his love. |
| Forester | A forester acts as guide to the Princess of France as she seeks to shoot a deer during a hunting trip. |
| Holofernes | Holofernes is a pretentious schoolmaster who, impressed by his own learning, uses such complicated and Latin-infused language he is nearly impossible to understand. |
| Jaquenetta | Jaquenetta is a simple dairy maid with whom Armado falls desperately in love. |
| Katherine | Katherine is one of the ladies who accompanies the Princess of France and is romantically matched with Dumaine. |
| Longaville | Longaville is one of the three lords who joins the King of Navarre's oath to avoid women, but he falls in love with Maria and sends her a love sonnet. |
| Marcade | Marcade is a messenger from France who arrives to tell the princess her father is dead. |
| Maria | Maria is one of the ladies who accompanies the Princess of France and is romantically matched with Longaville. |
| Mote | Mote (sometimes spelled "Moth" or referred to as "Boy") is a witty boy who acts as Armado's page, relentlessly mocking Armado at every opportunity. |
| Nathaniel | Nathaniel, the curate (clergyman) of Navarre, is impressed by Holofernes's amazing intellect and tries to keep up with the schoolmaster's displays of verbal prowess. |
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