# The Works of Max Beerbohm — Character guide

> Key figures in The Works of Max Beerbohm by Max Beerbohm.

- [Max Beerbohm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/max_beerbohm.md): Beerbohm is the book's presiding intelligence, a young wit who surveys the pageant of society from a window seat and finds in its absurdities the stuff of serious style. His pose is detached, almost languid, yet his judg
- [King George IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/king_george_iv.md): George is the book's grand cautionary case, a prince raised under a German sergeant's discipline so stifling that freedom became indistinguishable from excess. He lies compulsively, spends magnificently, and mourns his o
- [Mr. Brummell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/mr_brummell.md): Brummell is the book's central artist, a man whose medium was dark cloth, perfect linen, and the symmetry of glove with hand. He is economical, scrupulous, and utterly without personality outside his art, which is precis
- [Mr. Coates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/mr_coates.md): Coates belongs to the book's gallery of marginal grotesques, the sort of elderly oddity whose habits and pretensions Beerbohm notes with a raised eyebrow. He is less a plot agent than an atmosphere, a reminder that dandy
- [Romeo Coates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/romeo_coates.md): Coates is the book's study in aspiration and humiliation, a man who wanted the stage and got the laughter instead. He is mocked as the rejected Romeo, pitied as poor Romeo, and renamed the new Romeo whenever fashion brie
- [Count D'Orsay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/count_dorsay.md): D'Orsay is the book's second model of dandyism, a man who was nearly a painter and whose taste ran to countless rings and cobweb-fine chains. Where Brummell achieved the supreme effect through the least extravagant means
- [Princess Caroline](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/princess_caroline.md): Princess Caroline belongs to the gallery of Regency figures Beerbohm anatomizes with affectionate malice — the wronged wife whose private grief became public theatre. Her estrangement from George IV turns her into a symb
- [Mr. Hall Caine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/mr_hall_caine.md): Popular novelist and playwright, mentioned in literary commentary.
- [Thackeray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/thackeray.md): Novelist and satirist, referenced as a critic of dandyism.
- [Lord X.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/lord_x.md): Anonymous aristocratic dandy, used as a representative figure.
- [Mrs. Fox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/mrs_fox.md): Society hostess and mother of Charles James Fox.
- [Mr. Le V.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/mr_le_v.md): Aging dandy and friend of the narrator, emblem of fading elegance.
- [Emma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/emma.md): Young woman admired by the narrator, symbol of romantic ideal.
- [John Lane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/john_lane.md): Publisher of the Yellow Book and associated with the Dandy movement.
- [Mr. Pryse Gordon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/mr_pryse_gordon.md): Minor dandy and acquaintance of Brummell, mentioned in anecdotes.
- [Sir James Tylney Long](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/sir_james_tylney_long.md): Wealthy landowner and father of Miss Tylney Long, a social figure.
- [Lady Belper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/lady_belper.md): Society hostess and patron of the arts in Victorian London.
- [Gladstone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/gladstone.md): Prime Minister, referenced as a contrast to dandy culture.
- [Charles James Fox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/charles_james_fox.md): Whig statesman and gambler, noted for his flamboyant style.
- [Mr. Oscar Wilde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/mr_oscar_wilde.md): Playwright and wit, epitome of late-Victorian dandyism.
- [Aubrey Beardsley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_works_of_max_beerbohm_se/characters/aubrey_beardsley.md): Artist and illustrator, key figure in the Aesthetic movement.

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