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Original Title:	As You Like It
ISBN:	074348486X (ISBN13: 9780743484862)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Celia Kelly, Rosalind, Touchstone

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

Paperback | Pages: 263 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 69267 Users | 1821 Reviews

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Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too. Recent scholars have also grounded the play in the issues of its time. These include primogeniture, passing property from a father to his oldest son. As You Like It depicts intense conflict between brothers, exposing the human suffering that primogeniture entails. Another perspective concerns cross-dressing. Most of Orlando’s courtship of Rosalind takes place while Rosalind is disguised as a man, “Ganymede.” At her urging, Orlando pretends that Ganymede is his beloved Rosalind. But as the epilogue reveals, the sixteenth-century actor playing Rosalind was male, following the practice of the time. In other words, a boy played a girl playing a boy pretending to be a girl.

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Title	:	As You Like It
Author	:	William Shakespeare
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Folger Shakespeare Library Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 263 pages
Published	:	August 23rd 2011 by Simon Schuster (first published 1599)
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Drama. Fiction. Theatre. Literature. Romance

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Ratings: 3.83 From 69267 Users | 1821 Reviews

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"Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might: 'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'"There is quite a lot of romance here! Far more love stories than I have ever read in one play before. Or novel, for that matter.I love William Shakespeare. He is so clever, so witty, so innovative. (Fun fact: did you know we owe many word-inventions to him, including "upstairs" and "downstairs?") The things we can tip our hat in thanks toward him for!And yet, this love doesn't feel like love but fickle

Orlando, the youngest, and most loved son of the late Sir Rowland de Boys, ( set in France in the 16th Century) is being mistreated by his older brother Oliver, the middle son Jaques, is away at school, since Oliver inherited most of the rich estate, and money, he has the power of the purse to do anything . He, Oliver is jealous of his sibling's superior attributes, Orlando lacks education, possessions, totally dependent on his brother, but the very simpatico boy's qualities, nevertheless shines

As you like it, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), c 1623Characters: Main Characters: The Court of Duke Frederick: Duke Frederick, Duke Senior's younger brother and his usurper, also Celia's father. Rosalind, Duke Senior's daughter. Celia, Duke Frederick's daughter and Rosalind's cousin. Touchstone, a court fool or jester. Le Beau, a courtier. Charles, a wrestler. Lords and ladies in Duke Frederick's court.The Household of the deceased Sir Rowland de Boys: Oliver de Boys, the eldest son and heir.



The fun of Shakespeare's comedies isn't in the plots but in the pure genius of his language. Many of his best lines have become such staples of common usage that most people aren't even aware they're quoting Shakespeare. If they DO know, you can forget about asking them which plays the lines come from. I find an intensely perverse pleasure in Shakespeare's inventive insults. I can only DREAM of thinking up such clever quips and comebacks in the heat of an argument. And if I could think them up,

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.Another very enjoyable and entertaining play by The Bard. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.Also another very influential work as it is apparent how many romantic comedies over the years have borrowed liberally from this classic tale. Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I

I waffled a bit between three and four stars with this, but honesty requires three to reflect my actual enjoyment. One of the better comedies, but there are only a few of those that I really like. I listened to the L.A. Theatre Works audio performance of this along with my reading, and, while the songs were beautifully done, Rosalind's emoting was irritating in its excess.