As You Like It

As You Like It is a comedy by William Shakespeare, written in 1599 or 1600. The play was first published in the First FolioEdition of 1623. ==Eclogue[ Edit] == "As You Like It" was probably written in the period 1598-1600, during the last years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The piece belongs to the literary genre known as pastoral (eclogue) that has its roots in the literature of ancient Greece. The Roman Virgil also wrote pastorales and also in the time of Shakespeare knew the good luck.

Walter Howard: "A Scene from As You Like It"A pastoral or eclogue recounts usually over a flight from the city to the countryside, where the characters disguise themselves as shepherds. They converse than with the others on topics such as the benefits of living in nature versus life at Court, or on the relationship between art and nature. Traditionally it is also used as a vehicle to pastoral literature than social criticism. According to the Convention of the eclogue As You Like It also turns to romantic love, banal rivalries, young versus old, reason over passion in a playful universe in which thousands of choices are possible. ==Summary of the story[ Edit] == Sir Rowland de Bois has recently died and according to the law of primogeniture is the bulk of his estate to his eldest son Oliver. Even before he dies, he leaves his youngest brother Oliver promise to ensure good for Orlando. Oliver is not, however, to his word.

Orlando confronts his brother this, but is now threatened by him and there will eventually be nothing else behind him than to flee for Oliver.

Charles is the wrestler and Messenger of the Duke. He comes to tell Oliver that the old Duke is exiled by his little brother, the new Duke. Only the daughter of the old Duke (Rosalind) has lagged behind the daughter of the new Duke (Celia). They are in fact inseparable cousins.

Charles struggling in a game against Orlando and loses. Rosalind and Celia are also present. Orlando steals the heart of Rosalind.

The father of Celia (the new Duke) wants his niece Rosalind within ten days of the Court disappears. Celia finds this so much so that they can plan together away.They go looking for the father of Rosalind, the ex-Duke, in the forest of Arden. [1]  they take Touchstone the jester, so that he can give some fun along the way.The two ladies go dressed as a man on path, so they are not harassed along the way.

Adam, the servant of Orlando, has heard that Oliver wants to kill his brother Orlando. Orlando is no longer safe in his house and decides along with Adam on the run to save. Adam has 500 crowns and so they are going to put together a new life.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Along the way, Celia and Rosalind two shepherds against: Corin and Silvius. Rosalind feels their heartbreak to good, because they too is still violently in love with Orlando.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jacob is in exile gone with the ex-Duke, just like Amiens, a courtier. Orlando comes them against on his journey and demands that they give him food. They help him.

<p lang="en" len="81" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The current Duke (father of Celia) is mad at Oliver and chases him from his country.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Orlando is also in love with Rosalind, they know it just yet from each other. He hangs all the trees in the forest full of love poems for her. What he doesn't know, is that they are in the same forest, walk around dressed as a man. Eventually it against each other. Rosalind asks Orlando to behave as if he is in love with ' him ' is. That way his heartbreak over, claiming Rosalind in male costume. Orlando does this. Her father also comes Rosalind against in the Woods, but he doesn't recognize her, of course not.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Touchstone the jester falls in love with Audrey the goats guardian and marries her. Silvius, a shepherd, falls in love with Robert, a Shepherdess.

<p lang="en" len="199" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Ultimately, Rosalind the one out there on her way to make sure that everyone comes together: the four couples marry, she is reunited with her father, and Orlando marries the woman of his dreams.