The New International Encyclopædia/Biron
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| ←Birney, William | The New International Encyclopædia Biron |
Biron, Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of→ |
| Edition of 1905. See also Love's Labor's Lost and Thomas Southerne on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer. |
BIRON, Fr. pron. bḗ'rṓN'. (1) A light-headed, light-tongued lord in the suite of the King of Navarre, in Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost. (2) A character in the tragedy The Fatal Marriage, by Southerne; the husband of Isabella, and much-wronged brother of Carlos. The rôle was among the earliest of the younger Macready.
