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Don Adriano de Armado

A fantastical Spanish braggart whose inflated letters and wounded dignity make him the play's most elaborate self-parody of romantic love.

supporting

Also known as Armado, the magnificent Armado

First appearance: act i

As a supporting figure in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Don Adriano de Armado is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Referenced as a refined traveler and writer of the letter that accuses Costard; his ornate language is mocked.
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Armado styles himself a soldier and scholar at Navarre's court, but his grandiloquent letters to the country wench Jaquenetta betray a man undone by desire he considers beneath him. He confesses to his page Moth that he…

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MOMothHOHolofernesCOCostardBOBoyetKOKing of NavarreDADon Adriano de Armado

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  • Other

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  • Main lovers and performers
  • Protagonist

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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