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As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.
As this very general outline of As You Like It suggests, the most effective way to analyze the play as a whole may be to consider how its plot-heavy sections (acts 1 and 5) function in relation to the relatively plotless middle section (acts 2–4).
May 23, 2024 · As You Like It, five-act comedy by William Shakespeare, written and performed about 1598–1600 and first published in the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare based the play on Rosalynde (1590), a prose romance by Thomas Lodge.
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Jul 31, 2015 · In As You Like It, witty words and romance play out against the disputes of divided pairs of brothers. Orlando’s older brother, Oliver, treats him badly and refuses him his small inheritance from their father’s estate; Oliver schemes instead to have Orlando die in a wrestling match.
Jul 4, 2023 · As You Like It was first published in the 1623 First Folio and that text serves as the source for all subsequent editions of the play.
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed. me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well; and there. begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and 5. report speaks goldenly of his profit.
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