As You Like It, Epilogue - Shakespeare Online.
Set Text: As you like it This Shakespearean comedy has all the right ingredients: political intrigue, romantic interludes, mistaken identity, witty word-play, cross-dressing, music and song. When the true Duke and his daughter Rosalind are exiled by a villainous imposter, Rosalind and her cousin, Celia, flee city life to the forest of Arden.Portraits of Human Virtue: A Look at the Characters in Shakespeare's As You Like It Shakespeare's Second Period: Exploring Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet and the Histories Jaques in As You Like It Instruction Versus Deception: from Rosalynde to As You Like It.Pastoral, Comedy. As You Like It is most definitely a comedy. More specifically, it's a pastoral comedy. There are some features and conventions that are common in both pastoral literature and Shakespearean comedy so, we've come up with a checklist of some things you should know.
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare that was first performed in 1603. Read a Plot Overview of the entire play or a scene by scene Summary and Analysis. See a complete list of the characters in As You Like It and in-depth analyses of Rosalind, Orlando, and Jaques. Here's where you'll find analysis about the play as a whole.As You Like It follows several characters disconnected from society on their individual journeys to regain a place of belonging. The sense of disharmony in the play is unmistakably a result of the corruption in the court, the setting where the main characters are supposed to belong.
In the epilogue of As You Like It, Rosalind discusses the nature of real and performed gender identity in a final bid to resolve the gender confusion extant throughout the play.
