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As You Like It by William Shakespeare

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As You Like It Quotes
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As You Like It is considered by some to be a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare , written in 1599 or 1600. Contents 1 Act I 2 Act II 3 Act IV 4 Act V 5 External links // Act I Celia : Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel,...


Author Biography

Name: William Shakespeare
Birth Date: April 23, 1564
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Place of Death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
 


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As You Like It Information
2,727 words, approx. 9 pages
William Shakespeare's As You Like It is a pastoral comedy written in 1599 or early 1600. It is often classed as one of Shakespeare's mature...


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Spain Nixes Burger King Ad
11/16/2006: 323 words, approx. 1 pages
Burger King should yank an ad campaign for its monster XXL burger _ the caloric equivalent of eating 10 fried eggs _ because it violates a Spanish initiative against obesity, the Health Ministry said Thursday. The ministry said it had...
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Lucky magazine shopping in New Orleans
4/2/2007: 367 words, approx. 1 pages
Here's a reason to visit New Orleans: Go shopping!Lucky magazine's April issue includes a shopping and style guide to the city, which is still struggling to recover its tourism base in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.The magazine features four neighborhoods and their stores. From the...
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List of nominees for SAG Awards
12/20/2007: 364 words, approx. 1 pages
Nominees for the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild awards:Movies:Actor: George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"; Ryan Gosling, "Lars and the Real Girl"; Emile Hirsch, "Into the Wild"; Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises."Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"; Julie Christie, "Away From...
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Shakespeare Festivals Around the Country
7/24/2006: 566 words, approx. 2 pages
"Go travel for a while," Shakespeare wrote in "Pericles, Prince of Tyre." So, take his advice; go travel somewhere and see some Shakespeare You can enjoy the Bard's works seemingly anywhere these days, thanks to Shakespeare festivals in cities big...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Valerie Traub
12,335 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, Traub compares the representation of homoerotic desire in As You Like It and Twelfth Night, proposing that the early modern theatrical practice of boy actors playing female roles made it possible for Shakespeare to depict multiple sexual desires in both these comedies.
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Critical Essay by Mario DiGangi
11,540 words, approx. 39 pages
In the essay below, DiGangi analyzes homoeroticism in As You Like It as it relates to the early modern family and the mythological narrative that recounts Jupiter's desire for his page Ganymede.
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Critical Essay by Michael Shapiro
11,439 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Shapiro analyzes the device of the cross-gender disguise in Shakespeare's As You Like It, as well as in the plays of some of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
 
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How Does Shakespeare Portray the Forest of Arden Compared to the Court in as You Like It?
2,548 words, approx. 9 pages
A detailed description of they lifestyles of the country and the court in Shakespear's As You Like It.
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Transgressing Prescribed Gender Roles in Shakespeare
1,879 words, approx. 6 pages
William's Shakespeare's As You Like It is both a gentle, pastoral comedy and a complicated, dark debate on the the relationship between love, power and gender construction. Through the character of Rosalind, Shakespeare is able to both critique and transgress prescribed gender roles.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Extended Metaphor Soliloquy in "As You Like It"
667 words, approx. 2 pages
In William Shakespeare's "As You Like It," his famous "All the world's a stage" soliloquy is an extended metaphor for life with each stage representing a part of life that one must experience.
 


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