As You Like It by William Shakespeare is a comedic play about Rosalind as she tries to escape her Uncle Duke Frederick’s court. She is accompanied by the court jester, Touchstone and her cousin Celia as they venture into the Forest of Arden. They don disguises and meet various people using their new identities, which causes complications for the people from their past. Rosalind and her cohorts all become married and are allowed to return home as her uncle repents his mistakes.
The English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest of English writers and one of the most extraordinary creators in human history.The ...
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Considered by critics, scholars, and the theater-going public the most important dramatist in the history of English literature, William Shakespeare occupies a unique position in the pantheon of great...
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"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or ...
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William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly ...
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Biography Essay"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer,...
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Transgressing prescribed gender roles in As You Like It
Shakespeare's As You Like It is both a gentle, pastoral comedy and a complicated, dark debate on the relationship between love, power and gende...
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In `As You Like It' Shakespeare creates an imaginary utopia called `The Forest of Arden', in which characters can escape from the harsh lifestyle of the court and become their `true selves'. `As Yo...
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The Act 1 of AS YOU LIKE IT prepares the audience and the reader for the rest of the play. It is most similar to the prologue of the modern play where an insight to the rest of the play is provided. I...
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The primary concern that William Shakespeare reflects throughout the "All the world's a stage" soliloquy in "As You Like It" relates to the way that people think about you and their judgements on you ...
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
