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As You Like It (1599) As You Like It. (1599) Scene 1. Orchard of OLIVER’S house. Scene 2. A lawn before the DUKE’S palace. Scene 3. The DUKE’s palace.
ROSALIND, daughter to the banished Duke. CELIA, daughter to Frederick. PHEBE, a shepherdes. AUDREY, a country wench. Lords, Pages, Foresters, and Attendants. SCENE: OLIVER'S house; FREDERICK'S court; and the Forest of Arden. Back to Guide. As You Like It full text script.
As You Like It is a play of boundaries, exploring the spaces between gender identities, the worlds of rural and courtly life, and the fantasies and realities of love. It begins after Duke Senior is exiled by his older brother Frederick to the forest of Arden. His daughter Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave the court when Frederick threatens to ...
Overview. As You Like It by William Shakespeare, written around 1599, is a delightful pastoral comedy that explores themes of love, disguise, and the harmonizing power of nature. Set in the French duchy and the Forest of Arden, the play follows the fortunes and misadventures of Rosalind, who, disguised as a young man named Ganymede, seeks ...
Apr 22, 2023 · What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not furnished like a beggar; therefore to beg will not become me. My way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you.
Apr 12, 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. The play has two principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from his brother, the rightful duke (known as ...
Jul 31, 2015 · Act 2, scene 7. Scene 7. Synopsis: As Duke Senior and his companions sit down to eat, Orlando enters, demanding food. Welcomed by the duke, he brings Adam to join them. Enter Duke Senior and ⌜Lords,⌝ like outlaws. DUKE SENIOR. I think he be transformed into a beast, For I can nowhere find him like a man.
