William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee
AS YOU LIKE IT
Including The Life of William Shakespeare
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-3167-6
Table of Contents
The Life of William Shakespeare
PREFACE
II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE
VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC
VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY
VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS
IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON
X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS
XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER
XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE
XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY
XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS
XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS
As You Like It
Persons Represented
DUKE, living in exile
FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of his Dominions
AMIENS, Lord attending on the Duke in his Banishment
JAQUES, Lord attending on the Duke in his Banishment
LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick
CHARLES, his Wrestler
OLIVER, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois
JAQUES, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois
ORLANDO, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois
ADAM, Servant to Oliver
DENNIS, Servant to Oliver
TOUCHSTONE, a Clown
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar
CORIN, Shepherd
SILVIUS, Shepherd
WILLIAM, a Country Fellow, in love with Audrey
A person representing HYMEN
ROSALIND, Daughter to the banished Duke
CELIA, Daughter to Frederick
PHEBE, a Shepherdess
AUDREY, a Country Wench
Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other Attendants.
The SCENE lies first near OLIVER’S house;
afterwards partly in the Usurper’s court
and partly in the Forest of Arden.
ACT I
SCENE I. An Orchard near OLIVER’S house
[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM.]
ORLANDO
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion,—bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say’st, charged my brother, on his