Love's Labour's Lost Characters

Ferdinand:

 King of Navarre who resolves to live a life of virtue and deprivation for a 3-year period only to fall in love with the Princess of France

Berowne:

 a lord of Navarre who reluctantly joins his king in living a life of virtue and deprivation for a 3-year period only to fall in love with the Lady Rosaline

Longaville:

 a lord of Navarre who joins his king in living a life of virtue and deprivation for a 3-year period without reservations only to fall in love with the Lady Maria

Dumaine:

 another lord of Navarre who joins his king in living a life of virtue and deprivation for a 3-year period without reservations only to fall in love with the Lady Katherine

Dull:

a constable who is susceptible to malapropisms

Costard:

a clown

Don Adriano de Armado:

a Spanish man of fashion who falls in love with the country wench Jaquenetta

Moth:

Armado’s page

Jaquenetta:

 a country wench

Boyet:

a lord attending on the Princess of France

Princess of France:

French princess who has beguiled King of Navarre Ferdinand according to Boyet

Lord 1:

another lord attending on the Princess of France

Maria:

 a lady attending on the Princess of France and on whom the Lord Longaville takes an interest

Katherine:

a lady attending on the Princess of France and on whom the Lord Dumaine takes an interest

Rosaline:

lady attending on the Princess of France and on whom the Lord Berowne takes an interest

Forester:

 a hunting guide who guides the Princess of France and her retinue to a spot most favorable for hunting deer

Sir Nathaniel:

 a curate (a clerical assistant) who associates with the pedant Holofernes and is Holofornes’ diametric opposite in terms of intellectual modesty

Holofernes:

a schoolmaster and a pedant whose book learning often gets in his way at perceiving the truth

Marcade:

 the lord attending on the Princess of France who delivers the news of her father’s—the French king’s—death