As You Like It | Overviews

In the first excerpt, Sylvan Barnet presents a succinct overview of As You Like It in relation to Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. In the second selection, Alfred Harbage provides a scene-by-scene summary of As You Like It.

Sylvan Barnet
[Barnet presents a succinct overview of As You Like It in relation to Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's otherfestive comedies. In this excerpt, the critic explores the contrasting elements of the court and Arden forest, relates the various implications that the courtships of Orlando and Rosalind, Oliver and Celia, Silvius and Phebe, and Touchstone and Audrey have on the whole play, and surveys the theme of redemption through the characters' gradual self-knowledge, especially the improbable...

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