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As You Like It: Critical Essay by Dale G. Priest

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William Shakespeare
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SOURCE: Priest, Dale G. “Oratio and Negotium: Manipulative Modes in As You Like It.Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 28, no. 2 (spring 1988): 273-86.

In the following essay, Priest concentrates on the three “manipulators” of As You Like It—Jaques, Touchstone, and Rosalind—the last of whom emerges as the most skilled and benevolent negotiator of the play.

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