Character Work

                               Moth

Moth is Don Armado’s page, a young, small, and extremely quick-witted boy who can not only hold his own with his master’s affected language, but best him at it. 

He does not take Armado overly seriously, and sometimes tries to put him in his place. Moth misses few opportunities for a joke; when he is used as a prologue by Berowne and the other lords to the Princess and her ladies, he tries to adapt the text to the actual circumstances, though this does not please the author of the text. He is not easily intimidated. Moth is Armado's feisty page. He loves teasing and criticizing his master, and reminds us of a fly buzzing around a buffalo—tiny but powerful in his capacity to irritate. (Coincidence that his name is Moth?) Perpetually irreverent, he pokes fun at everyone in the play, rustic and royal alike.