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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. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 (the house having been a focus for literary activity under Mary Sidney for much of the later 16th century) has been suggested as a possibility.
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 ...
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Full Title: As You Like It. When Written: 1598-1600. Where Written: Stratford, England. When Published: 1623, First Folio. Literary Period: The Renaissance (1500-1600) Genre: Comedy. Setting: French Court and the Forest of Arden. Climax: Rosalind, dressed as Ganymede, sets the terms for the marriages of all the characters that surround her ...
Full Title As You Like It. Author William Shakespeare. Type of work Play. Genre Comedy, pastoral. Language English. Time and place written 1598–1600; London, England. Date of first publication First published in the Folio of 1623. Publisher Isaac Jaggard and Edmund Blount.
Contents. According to modern critics, As You Like It is a play written for the audience of the twenty-first century. Though it is placed in Elizabethan culture and uses its aesthetic, political, social, and literary culture. It is a finger placed on the pulse of the future. It is an escape from the world of troubles, worries, and corruption to ...
By the turn of the century Shakespeare had written his major romantic comedies: As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night; and with the accession of James to the English throne after the death of Elizabeth in 1603, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men were taken under the monarch’s wing, calling themselves thereafter the King’s Men.
Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know you are. my eldest brother; and in the gentle condition of blood, you. should so know me. The courtesy of nations allows you my better. in that you are the first-born; but the same tradition takes not. away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us. I have as.
