Orlando

Assist “As You Like It” as a romantic comedy.

Assist “As You Like It” as a romantic comedy. Or “In As You Like It Shakespeare weaves delightful variations on the pattern of romantic love.” Illustrate and discuss. Answer: As You like It is remarkable among Shakespeare’s plays for ending with four marriages, something of a record even among comedies. Love is a central theme […]

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Sketch the character of Orlando in the play, “As You Like It”.

Answer: Basically, Orlando de Boys is “everything that doth become a man” — that is, he epitomizes the Elizabethan concept of the ideal manly virtues, and he is also the embodiment of his late father’s moral precepts. When the play begins, we hear him speaking about his late father’s final wishes, and we realize the

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