As You Like It
by William Shakespeare · first published 1734
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This play has two principal settings: the court that Frederick has usurped from his brother, the rightful Duke, and the Forest of Arden, where the Duke and his followers (including the disgruntled Lord Jaques and the jester Touchstone) are living.
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My school had 'As You Like It' and Animal Farm in its curriculum. I must say, Shakespeare was a lot of fun to read, especially finding so many hidden puns in simple looking passages. My teacher also showed us a movie adaptation at…
on “Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems” ↗Shakespeare is from around the same time period as Rabelais in OP. If you haven't read Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, As You Like It, they also take some getting used to but are worth it in the end.
on “Short Little Difficult Books” ↗As Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It: And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot / And thereby hangs a tale Which is wittier when you realise that hour was pronounced like whore in his day.
on “Great Vowel Shift” ↗…first one with any real story to it, so it encouraged me to figure out the language so I could follow the plot by myself. I was introduced to Shakespeare at age 12 and in that year we studied two plays, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and I was bored with both. The language wasn't difficult as our teacher explained everything well but I didn't find the stories interesting, they were a bit of a yawn really.…
on “My ranking of every Shakespeare play” ↗…Courteous[1]: having read the fine article my opinion is otherwise. [0] to the point of having voted with my feet to live in a better society than the States had, and (to judge from the news) has. [1] see As You Like It V:iv
on “From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction (2020)” ↗I know this is Heathen Heresy but I never enjoyed Shakespeare. As part of my English studies I have read the following ones - Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew,…
on “Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems” ↗"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare Act 5, Scene 1: [...]The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool[...] I try to keep that quote in mind at all times. I believe it holds a great…
on “We Are All Confident Idiots” ↗"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare from "As You Like It"
on “4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity)” ↗Shakespeare thought otherwise, apparently: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."- William Shakespeare, As You Like It
on “Complaint-Driven Development” ↗…Shakespeare reuse many non-public characters? I ask because that's where copyright is an impediment to story writing. Shakespeare reused large portions of the plotlines from contemporary plays. Hamlet and As You Like It are two I can think of. But I think he changed most of the names.
on “Would the Bard Have Survived the Web?” ↗…manmade environment that ends "Nature" and turns the globe into a repertory theater to be programmed. Shakespeare at the Globe mentioning "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" (As You Like It, Act II, Scene 7) has been justified by recent events in ways that would have struck him as entirely paradoxical. The results of living inside a proscenium arch of satellites is that the young now accept…
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