Synopsis
Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too. Recent scholars have also grounded the play in the issues of its time. These include primogeniture, passing property from a father to his oldest son. As You Like It depicts intense conflict between brothers, exposing the human suffering that primogeniture entails.
My Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐ & ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎
4 stars. I enjoyed this play really a lot more than I expected to. There were some great themes/ideas in here and the humour was excellent. Orlando was very nice, and I liked Rosalind & Cecilia and the Duke and all the other characters… The only things I disliked were Rosalind’s dressing as a boy & the fact that Orlando was named Orlando when he was a Frenchman! 😂 Somehow that just REALLY bugged me. Other than that, I enjoyed the story very much. It was well done, some of the best Shakespeare I’ve read so far!
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