As You Like It | Act V Commentary

Scene i: This scene functions as comedy relief after the serious issues of the previous scene. Touchstone and Audrey, still looking for an appropriate priest to marry them, encounter William, Audrey's other suitor. Touchstone uses his witty remarks to scare William away, but he once again does not realize the depth of his observations. When William insists that he has a "pretty" wit, Touchstone's reply is that "'The fool doth think he is wise, but the/wise man knows himself to be a fool'" (ll.30-31). Touchstone is telling William that he is...

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