As You Like It (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1623
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: Middle Ages
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Pastoral
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Exile or expatriates, Mistaken or secret identity, Forests or forestry, Middle Ages, Nobility, Clowns
- Locales: France
Places Discussed
*Arden Forest. Arden, William Shakespeare’s mother’s maiden name, is also an actual forest north of Stratford. Shakespeare’s forest owes more to associations with Arcadia, the legendary home of pastoral poetry, and with the Garden of Eden than to reality. In this setting the banished Duke Senior and his band of followers find a world free from envy and flattery, where a man can weep for a wounded deer and there are “books in the running brooks” and “sermons in stones.” Separated from society, it is a region of freedom where the banished Rosalind...
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