Summary of As You Like It and Characters
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characters bring the plot of the play to life. Not only do
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Characters in As You Like It
Orlando
Phebe
Sir Oliver Martext
Le Beau
Oliver
Touchstone
William
Silvius
Rosalind
Sir Rowland de Bois
Audrey
Celia
Charles
Adam
Aliena
Amiens
Corin
Hymen
Jaques
Jaques de Boys
Dennis
Duke Frederick
Ganymede
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As You Like It is one of
the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare. The heroine, Rosalind, is
one of his most inspiring characters and has more lines than any of
Shakespeare's female characters. Rosalind, the daughter of a banished
duke falls in love with Orlando the disinherited son of one of the
duke's friends. When she is banished from the court by her usurping
uncle, Duke Frederick , Rosalind takes on the appearance of a boy
calling herself Ganymede. She travels with her cousin Celia and the
jester Touchstone to the Forest of Arden, where her father and his
friends live in exile. Themes about life and love, including aging, the
natural world, and death are included in the play. New friends are made
and families are reunited. By the end of the play Ganymede, once again
Rosalind, marries Orlando. Orlando and Rosalind, Oliver and Celia,
Silvius and Phebe, and Touchstone and Audrey all are married in the
final scene. Oliver becomes a gentler, kinder young man so the Duke
changes his ways and turns to religion and so that the exiled Duke,
father of Rosalind, can rule once again. Act II, Scene 7 features a
great soliloquy by William Shakespeare which begins:
"All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages..."
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