Actor Notes: Tim Sailer on Boyet in LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST.
The climax of Love's Labour's Lost occurs, according to both definitions, in Act V, Scene II, when the four women reject the love suits of the four men. Up to this moment, the women have regarded the antics of the king and his comrades as amusing flirtations and the king's realm as almost a chimerical world, although the men may have thought otherwise.
In Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labor’s Lost, King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three loyal friends--the Lords Berowne, Longueville, and Dumaine--decide to retreat from the world to study and fast, foregoing the company of women.However, the Princess of France, and her ladies Rosaline, Maria, and Katherine arrive on political business. Letters are exchanged, hijinks ensue, and the King.
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Nathaniel. Nathaniel is a curate, or village preacher. As a man of the cloth, he is educated enough to speak Latin with Holofernes. But he's definitely subservient in that relationship, lapping up every long-winded word the schoolteacher utters.
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