William Shakespeare's play As You Like It features the characters Rosalind and Celia. Rosalind is the daughter of the banished Duke Senior while Celia is the daughter of Duke Frederick who usurped power. The two are close friends, with Celia supporting Rosalind by following her into exile in the Forest of Arden. There, Rosalind disguises herself as a man named Ganymede while Celia takes on the identity of a shepherdess named Aliena. Though different personalities, with Rosalind being more adventurous, the friendship between Rosalind and Celia remains strong throughout the play.

1. NAME- KU.MANJUSHA RAMDAS INGLE
STREAM- M.A.1 ENGLISH
PAPER-2 ENGLISH DRAMA TO SHAKESPEARE
SEM- 1
TOPIC- ROSALIND AND CELIA (AS YOU LIKE IT)
COLLEGE- SMT RDG COLLEGE FOR
WOMEN,AKOLA
SESSION- 2021-22

2. AS YOU LIKE IT
William Shakespeare
• Birth-April 26,1564
• Death-April 23, 1616
• Born in Stratford-Upon- Avon,
England
• Son of prominent town official
• 3rd child of 8 children
• Received excellent education with
heavy focus on grammar and
literature

3. MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
• Married at age 18 to Anne Hathaway (she was 26) who was pregnant with
his child
• 1st child was daughter, Susanna-born in 1583• Twins, Hamnet and Judith
born in 1585
• Hamnet dies at age 11

4. LOST YEARS
• “Lost Years” The period between 1585
and 1592 is known as the “Lost Years”
because there are no documentary
records of Shakespeare’s activities.

5. LATER YEARS
• Moved to London around 1591 and became an actor.
Worked with the Lord Chamberlin’s company of players,
later known as the King’s Men
• Along with acting, he also wrote some of the most
renowned and studied literature written in the English
language
• Poems-famous for his sonnets
• Plays-Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories

6. CHARACTERS OF AS YOU LIKE IT
1.ROSALIND
2.CELIA

7. CHARACTER : ROSALIND
• The daughter of Duke Senior.
Rosalind, considered one of
Shakespeare’s most delightful
heroines, is independent minded,
strong-willed,good-hearted, and
terribly clever. Rather than slink off
into defeated exile, Rosalind
resourcefully uses her trip to the
Forest of Arden as an opportunity to
take control of her own destiny.
When she disguises herself as
Ganymede—ahandsome young
man , shepherd. Eventually ,Rosalind
is reunited withher father and
married to her faithful lover,Orlando.

8. CHARACTER :CELIA
• The daughter of Duke Frederick
and Rosalind’s dearest friend.
Celia’s devotion to Rosalind is
unmatched, as evidenced by
her decision to follow her cousin
into exile. To make the trip, Celia
assumes the disguise of a simple
shepherdess and calls herself
Aliena. As elucidated by her
extreme love of Rosalind and her
immediate devotion to Oliver,
whom she marries at the end of
the play.

9. ROSALIND AND CELIA
• Though they have similar backgrounds
and upbringings, Rosalind is much more
adventurousand unconventional than
Celia is. They are very close - so close
that Celia sides with her cousin and
defies her father to be with Rosalind.
Celia is neither as smart nor as witty as
Rosalind, but she is kind and loyal and
willing to go along with Rosalind's
scheme to sneak out of court and join
Duke Senior in the Forest of Arden,
where he holds court since he has been
banished by his brother, Celia's father.
• Celia would like to be as brave as
Rosalind, and she does make an
attempt,but she is not as well-suited to
the outdoorlife of a shepherdess as she
thought she would be. She discovers
her own kind of bravery in the process
of followingin Rosalind's footsteps,
but still lets her cousin take the lead.
• In the end, she marries Oliver, the
brother of Rosalind's love Orlando, and
Shakespeare ends the play leaving the
audience with the sense that the two
young womenwill remainclose friends.

10. ROSALIND AND CELIA
• An example of the friendship that exists between
Celia and Rosalind in “As You Like It” can be found
in Act 3 scene 4 lines 1-5:
• Rosalind: Never talk to me. I will weep.”
• Celia: Do, I prithee, but yet have the grace to
consider that tears do not become a man
• Rosalind: But have I not cause to weep?
• Celia: As good cause as one would desire;
therefore weep

11. ROSALIND AND CELIA
• In this conversation Celia takes on
the masculine role even though it is
Rosalind that is dressed as a man.
Celia is very strong at a point in the
play where Rosalind is facing
some emotional troubles. As the
more masculine of the two at this
time, Celia tells Rosalind that maybe
she should reconsider crying if she
is trying to be a man. One can see
the intense friendship that Celia and
Rosalind share in the passage when
Celia agrees that Rosalind does
have a good reason to cry.

12. QUOTE FROM 'AS YOU LIKE IT '