# Maria — Love’s Labour’s Lost character guide

> Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Maria Two

**First appearance:** 0004-act-ii

## Snapshot

A lady of the Princess's French train whose sharp memory of Lord Longaville turns idle court gossip into pointed, knowing commentary.

## Who they are

Maria moves through Navarre's forbidden court as one of the Princess's attending ladies, quick to name the men behind the King's famous vow. Asked about Longaville, she recalls him from a Normandy wedding as a man of sovereign parts whose only blemish is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will. That blend of admiration and clear-eyed judgment makes her a quiet counterweight to the lords' romantic self-dramatizing, and her wit will be tested once the men begin courting in earnest.

## In the story

### [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_s_labour_s_lost_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-i)

Provides a description of Longaville as a sharp-witted but blunt lord.

### [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_s_labour_s_lost_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-i)

Joins the verbal sparring with Boyet and Costard.

### [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/love_s_labour_s_lost_se/chapters/act-v-scene-ii)

Receives pearls and a long letter from Longaville; joins in the mockery.

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