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Mothers are notable by their absence from As You Like It. This is an interesting characteristic it shares with another Shakespeare play, Henry V. In both plays, the main emphasis is on...
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The conversation between Orlando and Jaques in Act III, scene 2 is similar to the exchange between Rosalind and Jaques in Act IV, scene 1 in that they both criticize emotional excesses. However,...
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Love at first sight is an important theme in Shakespeare’s comedic play As You Like it. There are three instances of this in the play. Phoebe and Ganymede (Rosalind) embody the best example of this...
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As You Like It functions as a Shakespearean comedy is several ways. First and most simply, it ends not just happily, but with an open festival and celebration. This shows the positive aspects of...
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I don't have a copy of the play handy, but the quote must allude to a remainder biscuit and not a reminder biscuit. That would be a biscuit left over, uneaten, after a long sea voyage. The biscuit...
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In act 1, scene 3, Rosalind and Celia are talking about Rosalind's love for Orlando when Duke Ferdinand enters the room "with his eyes full of anger" and tells Rosalind to "get you from our...
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In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Rosalind and Celia are cousins. Rosalind is the daughter of Duke Senior, who has been deposed and exiled to the Forest of Arden by his younger brother, Duke...
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Celia's sacrifice is to leave her comfortable home at the court, where she is daughter of the duke, to join Rosalind in her banishment. Celia is even the one who suggests they go to the Forest of...
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In the song "Under the Greenwood Tree" in act 2, scene 5, of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Jaques and Amiens sing of those they would invite to the Forest of Arden to join them under the greenwood...
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In act 5, most conflicts are resolved. One pastoral conflict, albeit a slight one, concerns Audrey and the rival suitors Touchstone and William. Touchstone engages in verbal conflict to prove his...
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In act 2, scene 7 of William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It, Duke Senior and his companions-in-exile in the Forest of Arden are having their dinner al fresco. They're suddenly set...
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Rosalind's initial motivation for wearing the disguise is safety. A woman is more vulnerable in the wilderness than a man is, so she dresses like a man to ward off the threat of rape in particular....
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The goddess of the moon and hunting Diana is the "thrice-crowned queen of night." Just as we say "twice" to mean two times, it was also the case in Shakespeare's day and for centuries afterwards to...
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The true Duke—Duke Senior—has taken refuge in the forest in the way that the lines of the song sung under the greenwood tree suggest that people should. When Duke Frederick usurps his older...
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When Orlando first meets Ganymede (Rosalind, in disguise as a man) and Aliena (Celia, disguised as a shepherdess) in act 3, scene 2 of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Orlando has been posting love...
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As the play begins, Orlando and his half brother Oliver have a furious quarrel, and Orlando is dispossessed of his inheritance. Becoming very conscious of his position of deprivation and resentful...
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Orlando may have been victorious in his wrestling match with Charles, but his problems are by no means over. Although he is immediately showered with a chorus of praise not everyone is quite so...
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As You Like It is a five-act pastoral comedy written by famed English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, originally published in 1623. It tells the story of Rosalind—a kind, smart, and...
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Throughout Shakespeare's As You Like It, Phoebe, a proud shepherdess, has been passionately pursued by a Silvius, a shepherd. In act 3, scene 5 the besotted young man makes a lengthy declaration...
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Women's roles in Shakespeare's time were quite limited, despite the fact that a woman ruled England at the time of William Shakespeare. The Elizabethan society was highly patriarchal, and women...
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"Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?" is a line spoken by the shepherdess Phebe when she falls for Rosalind in her disguise as the boy Ganymede. it is actually a line from Christopher...
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Shakespeare often has very different sorts of lovers in his comedies. Some fall in love at first sight, some fall in love over time, some fall in love while in disguise, and some seem never to...
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Jaques is one of the main characters in the Shakespeare play As You Like It. He is one of Duke Senior's noblemen who lives with him in the Forest of Arden. Jaques' role in the play is centered more...
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As the play opens, Rosalind and Celia are cousins and very close friends. Both come from aristocratic backgrounds: Rosalind is the daughter of the deposed Duke Senior, whose brother, Celia's...
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At first Rosalind decides to disguise herself as a man because it will be safer for her and Celia as they travel to the Forest of Arden together in order to escape Duke Frederick. However, once in...
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The main "scenic contrast" in the play is, as you say, between the court and the Forest of Arden. In this formulation, the court is a place of plotting and revenge, while the Forest is a place of...
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Blank verse is another term for unrhymed iambic pentameter, the very specific format Shakespeare used in most of his plays and nearly all of his sonnets. While Shakespeare also used rhyming verse...
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The play is a comedy for several reasons. First, it is a comedy in the sense of its dramatic form: the good characters end up together, and the lovers marry happily. Second, the mood is rarely...
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Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" is an analogy of the different phases of life that a man goes through during a lifetime. The use of imagery, metaphor and simile are the strongest figures of...
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Pastoral literature celebrates the freedom and purity of life outside the city, in the rural areas. Unlike in real life rural areas, characters in a pastoral play don't need to work hard all day on...
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Shakespeare tells us in "As You Like It" that:"All the world's a stageAnd all the men and women merely players".The characters in this story are trapped by the roles that...
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The pastoral idyllic poem originates with Greek poet Theocritus and idealizes the simple rural life of shepherds and other people who dwell in the countryside and live their lives close to nature...
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When you talk about gender roles in Shakespeare's day, you can't limit the discussion to male and female. You need to take social status and class into consideration.Of course, the people with the...
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The play offers a comparison between life at court and life in the Forest of Arden. Rosalind and Celia disguise themselves and move among the shepherds and other rustics, discussing love and other...
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At the end of act 1, scene 2, following the wrestling match won by young Orlando, Duke Frederick's attendant, Le Beau, warns Orlando that Duke Frederick is "humorous" (meaning that he's being very...
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What Shakespeare is saying in the line that you cite is that all people eventually die. In this passage from As You Like It, he has gone through what he says are the seven stages of human (male)...
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The answer to both parts of your question is "Yes." As You Like It is both a pastoral and a satire on the pastoral. It is a pastoral because it fulfills the requirements for the category, which...
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Duke Frederick and Duke Senior embody one of two major conflicts between brothers in Shakespeare's As You Like It. The other conflict is between two younger men, Orlando and his older brother,...
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In Act 2, Scene 7 of As You Like It, the melancholy Jaques muses on the stages of life. The speech begins with infancy, with man "Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms" (144), and then it ends in...
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Shakespeare's famous and frequently quoted passage comes from the melancholy Jacques in Act II, Scene 7 of As You Like It. In the part in which Jacques characterizes the young man as a soldier who...
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In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Touchstone is a fool, or jester, in Duke Frederick's household. Duke Frederick is a serious, no-nonsense, villainous character in the play, and this might explain...
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In act 5, scene 2, the brothers Orlando and Oliver meet in the forest. The scene begins with Orlando responding to something that his brother has just told him. We soon understand that Oliver has...
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This is rather a baffling question. In Act III scene 3, when Touchstone tries to marry Audrey as quickly as possible, he calls her a "slut," recognising that she has had many relationships before,...
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The quote you have identified comes from Act I scene 3, and is said by Rosalind to Celia, following Celia's suggestion that they escape the court together and go to the Forest of Arden. If we have...
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In As You Like It, Duke Frederick banishes his niece, Rosalind, after he usurps her father’s realm. Initially he allows Rosalind to stay at court for his daughter's sake because she and Celia are...
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This quote comes at the beginning of the conversation between Touchstone and Corin, who in this scene debate the various merits of country living vs. living in the court. The quote you have...
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Although Shakespeare expresses many different types of love in As You Like It, the relationship between Rosalind and Orlando represents the ideal of romantic love and is expressed through poetry,...
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The clue to understanding Duke Frederick's suspicions and banishment of Rosalind lies in the preceding scene, Act I, scene ii. The last half of the scene is devoted to the wrestling match...
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When Rosalind first encounters Orlando in Act 3, Scene 1, they begin their conversation with the following dialogue: ROSALIND I pray you, what is't o'clock? ORLANDO You should ask me what time o'...
