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Qu'est-ce (qui) est Costard - définition

CHARACTER IN LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
Costardism; Costardisms
  • A 1776 print by Charles Grignion of Thomas Weston playing Costard. Originally published in Bell's edition of Shakespeare.

Costard         
['k?st?d, 'k?st-]
¦ noun Brit. a cooking apple of a large ribbed variety.
Origin
ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr., from coste 'rib', from L. costa.
Costard         
·noun The head;
- used contemptuously.
II. Costard ·noun An apple, large and round like the head.
Costard         
Costard is a comic figure in the play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare. A country bumpkin, he is arrested in the first scene for flouting the king's proclamation that all men of the court avoid the company of women for three years.

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Costard

Costard is a comic figure in the play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare. A country bumpkin, he is arrested in the first scene for flouting the king's proclamation that all men of the court avoid the company of women for three years. While in custody, the men of the court use him to further their own romantic endeavors. By sending love notes to the wrong women and blurting out secrets (including that of an unplanned pregnancy), Costard makes fools of the royal court. Along with Moth the page and Jaquenetta, a country wench, Costard pokes fun at the upper-class. While mocking a pedantic schoolmaster, Costard uses the word honorificabilitudinitatibus, the longest word by far from any of Shakespeare's works.

Costard makes many clever puns, and is used as a tool by Shakespeare to explain new words such as remuneration. He is sometimes considered one of the smartest characters in the play due to his wit and wordplay.

Costard's name is an archaic term for apple, or metaphorically a man's head. Shakespeare uses the word in this sense in Richard III.