Lady Rosaline, Lady Maria and Lady Katherine are all characters in which Shakespeare play?
Rosaline similarities between them: both are described as beautiful, and both have a way of avoiding men's romantic advances. Rosaline in "Love's Labours Lost" constantly rebuffs her suitor's advances and Romeo's Rosaline remains distant and chaste in his brief descriptions of her. These similarities have led some to wonder whether they are based on a woman Shakespeare actually knew, possibly the Dark Lady described in his sonnets, but there is no strong evidence of this connection. Analysts note that Rosaline acts as a plot device, by motivating Romeo to sneak into the Capulet party where he will meet Juliet. Without her,
Lady Katherine Grey Lady Katherine Grey Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568), born Lady Katherine Grey, was the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey. A granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, she emerged as a prospective successor to her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, before incurring Queen Elizabeth's wrath by secretly marrying Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford. Arrested after the Queen was informed of their clandestine marriage, Katherine ("as" Lady Hertford) lived in captivity until her death, having borne two sons in the Tower of London. Lady Katherine was born at Bradgate Park, near Leicester, the