The characters:
- Ferdinand – King of Navarre
- Lord Berowne – attending on the King (also spelt Biron)
- Lord Longaville – attending on the King (also spelt Longueville)
- Lord Dumaine – attending on the King
- Princess of France
- Lady Rosaline – attending on the Princess
- Lady Maria – attending on the Princess
- Lady Katharine – attending on the Princess
- Boyet – attending on the Princess
- Marcadé – messenger
- Don Adriano de Armado – a fantastical Spaniard
- Moth – Armado’s page
- Sir Nathaniel – curate
- Holofernes – schoolmaster
- Dull – constable
- Costard – a rustic
- Jaquenetta – country wench
- Forester
- Officers and Others, Attendants on the King and Princess
All played by 4 members of the Bremer Shakespeare Company in the ruins of the Landskron castle (built 1410, occupied by the Spaniards in 1620, the Swedes in 1631 and the French in 1689, the latter leaving it in its considerably munted state ) above Oppenheim.
Clear skies, not a breath of wind, 20°, a moon that looked like a slice of lemon.
PS. I love your simile: like a slice of lemon!!
Only four players? They must have been busy! Thanks for adding a new word to my vocabulary…wonderful! How is it pronounced: moonting or mun-ting (like punting)??
Munted as in punted