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- 1. As You Like It Comedy, characters, structure, and themes
- 2. As You Like It a romantic comedy • Comedy – Hero in everyday situations – reveals foibles and follies of man – Comedy ends in inclusion, marriage – satiric • Romance – Hero on quest – Hero leaves home – Hero grows, works toward becoming full characters – moralistic
- 3. As You Like It Micro/macrocosm • Disorder on political level – Duke Frederick has ousted Duke Senior – Law of Primogenitor overturned • Disorder on family level – A brother has banished his older brother – Another brother has cheated his younger brother out of his inheritance – a split between father and child • physical separation • emotional distance
- 4. As You Like It two worlds • Court – place of corruption – wrestling (of Charles) is “sport for ladies” – Love is a game to pass the time • Forest of Arden – ideal, golden world – wrestling (of lion) is necessary to save human life – love provides lessons
- 5. As You Like It Four Couples • realistic – Rosalind and Orlando • romantic – Celia and Oliver • pastoral – Silvius and Phebe • sexual – Touchstone and Audrey
- 6. As You Like It Plot/subplot structure main plot subplots Rosalind/Orlando Celia/Oliver Silvius/Phebe Touchstone/Audrey 1.1 1.2 1.3 3.2 4.1 4.3 5.2 5.4 4.3 5.2 5.4 4.3 5.2 5.4 5.2 5.4 3.3 3.4 3.5 2.4
- 7. As You Like It Foiling • Character foiling – two Dukes, one men willing go with, one men fly from – Duke Senior the idealist and Jaques the melancholy – Touchstone as court fool, Jaques as fool in forest • Similar scenes – wrestling of Charles and of lion, 1.2 and 4.3 – fake marriages: Touchstone/Audrey, Rosalind/Orlando
- 8. As You Like It -- Act I Scene 1 Orlando sad Charles and Oliver Scene 2 Rosalind sad wrestling Scene 3 Rosalind banished Celia plans trip to Forest of Arden
- 9. As You Like It -- Act II Scene 1 Duke Senior “Sermons in Stone” Scene 2 Duke Frederick sends for Oliver Scene 3 Adams warns Orlando to flee Scene 4 Rosalind and Celia arrive, see Corin Scene 5 Jaques’ melancholy Scene 6 Orlando to help Adam in forest Scene 7 Duke Senior and Orlando “All the World’s a Stage”
- 10. As You Like It -- Act III Scene 1 Duke Frederick seizes Oliver’s lands Scene 2 Orlando’s poems Corin/Touchstone Jaques/Orlando Rosalind as Ganymede will teach Orlando Scene 3 Touchstone and Audrey Scene 4 Rosalind and Celia Scene 5 Silvius and Phebe
- 11. As You Like It -- Act IV Scene 1 Jaques Rosalind and Orlando “Men have died from time to time, but not for love” Scene 2 Jaques Scene 3 Rosalind and Celia w/ Silvius Oliver tells of rescue by Orlando
- 12. As You Like It -- Act V Scene 1 Touchstone and Audrey “marriage” Scene 2 Orlando and Oliver reconcile Rosalind promised to solve all Scene 3 Touchstone and Audrey Scene 4 Marriages Rosalind the Epiloque
- 13. As You Like It themes • Comic and Satiric view vs. Romantic ideal • Nature of love • Nature vs. Nurture • Nature vs. Fortune • Responsibility of brothers to each other • Melancholy • Court vs. Nature
- 14. As You Like It Rosalind as ideal character Duke Senior romantic ideal Jaques satiric melancholy Rosalind romantic and satiric