"of loyal men, including Lord Amiens and Jaques. We have the sense that Senior did not put up much of a fight to keep his dukedom, for he seems to make the most of whatever life gives him. Content in the forest, where he claims to learn as much from stones and brooks as he would in a church or library, Duke Senior proves himself to be a kind and fair-minded ruler. She is a nice lady that gets banished to the forest of Arden by her uncle - the same forest her father was banished to. Rosalind - The"
"prominent in the area for centuries. Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare, was a member. Shakespeare's play ""As You Like It"" is set in the Forest of Arden, however it is an imaginary version incorporating elements from the Ardennes forest in Thomas Lodge's prose romance ""Rosalynde"" and the real forest (both as it was then, subjected to deforestation and enclosure, and the romanticized version of his youth). Towns in the area include Hampton-in-Arden, Henley-in-Arden, and Tanworth-in-Arden. The Countryside Commission considered creating a new national forest in the area in 1989, but the proposal was not taken up. A national forest"
"Jaques both elect to remain within the forest. University of Wisconsin professor Richard Knowles, the editor of the 1977 New Variorum edition of this play, in his article ""Myth and Type in As You Like It"", pointed out that the play contains mythological references in particular to Eden and to Hercules. ""As You Like It"" is known as a musical comedy because of the number of songs in the play. Indeed, there are more songs in it than in any other play of Shakespeare. These songs and music are incorporated in the action that takes place in the forest of"
"and Tasso. Shakespeare made good use of the ""locus amoenus"" in his long poem ""Venus and Adonis"". The trope also fed into his construction, in many plays, of what Northrop Frye has called the Shakespearean ""green world"" – a space that lies outside of city limits, a liminal space where erotic passions can be freely explored, away from civilization and the social order – such as the Forest of Arden in ""As You Like It"". A mysterious and dark, feminine place, as opposed to the rigid masculine civil structure, the green world can also be found featured in ""A Midsummer"
"until Twelfth Night. The lightbulbs on the tree were changed in 2006 to energy-saving lightbulbs, so the tree is not as bright as before but uses less energy. Much of Kenneth Branagh's 2006 film ""As You Like It"", adapted from Shakespeare's play, was filmed on location at Wakehurst. Nearby, also cared for by Kew, are Loder Valley Nature Reserve of woodland, meadowland and wetland habitats, and the Francis Rose Reserve, the first devoted to cryptogams (mosses, lichens and ferns). In 1887, American architect Dudley Newton completed a replica of Wakehurst Place in Newport, Rhode Island for sportsman and politician James"
"the Derrickson property, a farm six miles north of Wilmington on June 12, 1900. Price and Stephens named their newly founded community after the idyllic Forest of Arden from Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"", and adopted ""You are welcome hither"" (a line from ""King Lear"") as the community motto because they wanted the village to be a place open to people of all economic levels and political views. Along with their economic philosophy, Price and Stephens shared a belief in the principles of William Morris, John Ruskin, and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris, an Englishman, rebelled against modern cities"
"being written, expanding geographical knowledge, and the decrease of woodland for farmland, meant the decrease of forests that could be presumed magical. In ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", William Shakespeare wrote of a forest that was enchanted specifically by the presence of Oberon and Titania, the fairy king and queen; like many forests in Shakespeare's works, it becomes a place of metamorphosis and resolution. Others of his plays, such as ""As You Like It"", take place in a forest, which contains no enchantments but acts much as the forest of folklore. Often there will be Dragons, Dwarfs, Elves, Fairies, Giants, Gnomes,"
"intimacy of romantic emotion and is notable in its ""protracted absences."" Romeo journeys in solitary walks into the woods surrounding Verona to lament his ill-fated romance with Rosaline and remove him from a world occupied by more human matters. ""As You Like It"", also contains considerable references to the green world. The Forest of Arden is both idealized through the usage of pastoral terms, but is also depicted in a way that shows how humans manipulate and exploit it. While the play makes use of typical pastoral motifs in describing the forest, these are often juxtaposed with images of the"
"characters' ""time in the forest appear[ing] to be more an upscale camping expedition rather than exile."" The ""Prefaces to Shakespeare"" episode for ""As You Like It"" was presented by Janet Suzman, who had played Rosalind in a 1967 RSC production directed by George Rylands. The ""Shakespeare in Perspective"" episode was presented by novelist Brigid Brophy. Cast Director Herbert Wise felt that ""Julius Caesar"" should be set in the Elizabethan era, but as per the emphasis on realism, he instead set it in a Roman ""milieu"". Wise argued that the play ""is not really a Roman play. It's an Elizabethan play"
"no evidence that the poem was written before ""As You Like It"". The second suggested source is ""The Historie of Orlando Furioso"" by Robert Greene, acted about 1592. It is suggested that Shakespeare derived the idea of Orlando's carving his lady's name on barks of trees from this play, but a lover carving love-poems on barks of trees was already in Lodge's tale. ""As You Like It"" was first printed in the collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, known as the First Folio, during 1623. No copy of it in Quarto exists, for the play is mentioned by the printers of"
"is lost within the moral maze of Sotherton's wilderness. Others have seen in this episode, echoes of Shakespeare's ""As You Like It,"" though Byrne sees a more direct link with recent and contemporaneous stage comedy, in particular George Colman and David Garrick's highly successful play, ""The Clandestine Marriage"" (inspired by Hogarth's series of satirical paintings, ""Marriage a la Mode"") with which Austen was very familiar, which had a similar theme and a heroine called Fanny Sterling""."" (Sir Thomas later praises Fanny's ""sterling"" qualities.) 'Wilderness' was a term used by landscape developers to describe a wooded area, often set between the"
"is based on the ""Seven Ages of Man"" element of the ""All the world's a stage"" speech and was premiered in April 2016. As You Like It As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. ""As You Like It"" follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually,"
"Characters in As You Like It The following is a list of characters in William Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"". Duke Frederick is the younger brother of Duke Senior. Prior to the play he usurps power from his older brother. His hatefulness and paranoia are displayed when he banishes Rosalind, the daughter Duke Senior. However, at the end of the play, as Duke Frederick brings his army towards the forest to kill his brother, he happens upon a old priest who convinces him to take up the monastic life of peace and simplicity. Celia is the daughter of Duke Frederick."
"adaptation of ""As You Like It"" premiered on September 1, 2017 at the Delacorte Theatre in New York City. As part of Public Works at The Public Theater’s mission of community engagement, the musical featured over 200 actors and community members and tickets were completely free to the public for all five nights of its run. Adapted from William Shakespeare's classic story, “As You Like It” is a dreamy production exploring themes of friendship, family, and love. Orlando, Duke Senior, his daughter Rosalind and niece Celia are exiled from their homes and flee to the magical and welcoming Forest of"
"king for our wild faction!' Robin Hood is also mentioned in ""As You Like It"". When asked about the exiled Duke Senior, the character of Charles says that he is '""already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England'. Justice Silence sings a line from an unnamed Robin Hood ballad, the line is ""Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John"" in Act 5 scene 3 of Henry IV, part 2. In Henry IV part 1 Act 3 scene 3, Falstaff refers to Maid Marian implying she is"
"that time, James Speer, proposed the name Orlando after the character in ""As You Like It"". According to Cheney, Speer, ""was a gentleman of culture and an admirer of William Shakespeare... Quoting a letter that Speer wrote, ""Orlando was a veritable Forest of Arden, the locale of ""As You Like It."""" Speer's descendants have also confirmed this version of the naming and the legend has continued to grow. This account also has some validity in that, as mentioned above, Speer was instrumental in changing the name of the settlement from Jernigan to Orlando, though he may have used the Orlando"
"Tasso's ""Aminta"" (1573), Isabella Andreini's ""Mirtilla"" (1588), and Guarini's ""Il pastor fido"" (1590). John Lyly's ""Endimion"" (1579) brought the Italian-style pastoral play to England. John Fletcher's ""The Faithful Shepherdess"", Ben Jonson's ""The Sad Shepherd"" and Sidney's ""The Lady of May"" are later examples. Some of Shakespeare's plays contain pastoral elements, most notably ""As You Like It"" (whose plot was derived from Thomas Lodge's pastoral romance ""Rosalynde"") and ""The Winter's Tale"", of which Act 4 Scene 4 is a lengthy pastoral digression. The forest in ""As You Like It"" can be seen as a place of pastoral idealization, where life is"
"of sculpture, and also for its charming treatment of the youthful form as it soars into the air. It is apparently . Such Hellenistic gravity-defying feats were influential in the sculpture of the Baroque. In Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"" (1599), a comedy of mistaken identity in the magical setting of the Forest of Arden, Celia, dressed as a shepherdess, becomes ""Aliena"" (Latin ""stranger"", Ganymede's sister) and Rosalind, because she is ""more than common tall"", dresses up as a boy, Ganymede, a well-known image to the audience. She plays on her ambiguous charm to seduce Orlando, but also (involuntarily) the"
"Ardenwood Historic Farm Ardenwood Historic Farm is a Regional Historic Landmark in Fremont, California. It is managed by the East Bay Regional Park District. Officially opened to the public on July 28, 1985, the entire park includes a farm, a large forest and a mansion now called the Patterson House which was first constructed in 1857 by the farm's original owner, George Washington Patterson. Patterson called his estate ""Ardenwood"", after the forested area in England mentioned in Shakespeare's play, ""As You Like It"". There were two subsequent additions to the house. The largest was in 1889 when Patterson and his"
"productions at different high schools around the country. The group continued to perform at Trinity College over the next several years, holding performances either outside on the quadrangle, or inside of Strachan Hall. The group began the First Canadian Shakespeare Festival, which opened on June 27, 1949, with a performance of ""As You Like It"", at the University of Toronto's Trinity College quadrangle. Two years later, the Grey's planted a mulberry tree, alleged to have been taken from the root of the tree supposedly planted by Shakespeare at his last residence, the New Place. With the formation of the Earle"
"As You Like It (2006 film) As You Like It is a 2006 film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based on the Shakespearean play of the same name. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard as Rosalind, David Oyelowo as Orlando De Boys, Romola Garai as Celia, Adrian Lester as Oliver De Boys, Alfred Molina as Touchstone, Kevin Kline as Jaques, Janet McTeer as Audrey, and Brian Blessed as Duke Frederick and his brother Duke Senior. Branagh moved the play's setting from medieval France to a late 19th-century European colony in Japan after the Meiji Restoration. Branagh filmed it at"
"Under the Greenwood Tree (1918 film) Under the Greenwood Tree is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Emile Chautard and starring Elsie Ferguson. The movie was based on a play by Henry V. Esmond. An unrelated British film with this title based on the Thomas Hardy novel ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" was made in 1929. The film possibly has a scene where Ferguson swims in the nude in a pond. The title refers to a line in William Shakespeare's play ""As You Like It"" (Act II, Scene V). It is classified as being a lost film. Mary Hamilton"
"James Audubon met with Rees in his large estate at Spring Garden, about 45 minutes away from Orlando. The final variation has the city named after the protagonist in the Shakespeare play ""As You Like It"". In 1975, Judge Donald A. Cheney put forth a new version of the story in an Orlando Sentinel article. Cheney (a local historian and then chairman of the county historical commission) recounted a story told to him by his father, Judge John Moses Cheney (a major figure in Orlando's history who arrived in Orlando in 1885). The elder Cheney recounted that another gentleman at"
"repented his faults, deciding to restore his legitimate brother to the dukedom and adopt a religious life. Jaques, ever melancholic, declines their invitation to return to the court, preferring to stay in the forest and to adopt a religious life as well. Rosalind speaks an epilogue to the audience, commending the play to both men and women in the audience. The direct and immediate source of ""As You Like It"" is Thomas Lodge's ""Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie"", written 1586-7 and first published in 1590. Lodge's story is based upon ""The Tale of Gamelyn"", wrongly attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer and sometimes"
"As You Like It (1936 film) As You Like It is a 1936 British film, directed by Paul Czinner and starring Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. It is based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was Olivier's first performance of Shakespeare on screen. It was the final film of stage actors Leon Quartermaine and Henry Ainley, and featured an early screen role for Ainley's son Richard as Sylvius, as well as for John Laurie, who played Orlando's brother Oliver. (Laurie would go on to co-star with Olivier in the three Shakespearean films that"
"Touchstone (As You Like It) Touchstone is a fictional character in Shakespeare's play ""As You Like It"". Touchstone is the court jester of Duke Frederick, the usurper's court. Throughout the play he comments on the other characters and thus contributes to a better understanding of the play. Touchstone falls in love with a dull-witted goat girl named Audrey. William, an oafish country boy, makes clumsy attempts to woo her as well, but is driven off by Touchstone, who threatens to kill him ""a hundred and fifty ways"". Eventually Touchstone marries Audrey, but a prediction is made that the relationship will"
"composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity. Other poets display cabinets of precious rarities, minutely finished, wrought into shape, and polished unto brightness. Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerals."" Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1795-1796 ""Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship"" (book IV, chap. 3"
"This lasts you for five miles (8 km), getting, if possible, uglier and uglier all the way, till, at last, as if barren soil, nasty spewy gravel, heath and even that stunted, were not enough, you see some rising spots, which instead of trees, present you with black, ragged, hideous rocks. The predominantly open, heathland landscape of Ashdown Forest described so vividly by Cobbett in 1822 and later immortalised by E.H. Shepard in his illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories is essentially man-made: in the absence of human intervention, heathlands such as Ashdown's are quickly taken over by scrub and trees."
"medieval times is found on a hill in the centre of the village. In Tudor times Rowington manor was owned by Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII of England. Possibly the most famous building however is Shakespeare Hall, where a branch of William Shakespeare's family is reputed to have lived at the same time he was alive, and indeed Rowington is specifically mentioned in Shakespeare's will. It was rumoured he wrote ""As You Like It"" there. There were once several windmills in the village but only one remains and its sails have been removed and the building"
"suffering an epidemic of bubonic plague. The King's Men were paid £30 to come to Wilton House and perform for the King and Court on 2 December 1603. A Herbert family tradition holds that the play acted that night was ""As You Like It."" During the English Restoration, the King's Company was assigned the play by royal warrant in 1669. It is known to have been acted at Drury Lane in 1723, in an adapted form called ""Love in a Forest;"" Colley Cibber played Jaques. Another Drury Lane production seventeen years later returned to the Shakespearean text (1740). Notable recent"
"spirit living in the Black Forest, the little glass-imp, who also goes by the name of Schatzhauser. The glass-imp grants three wishes to every person born on a Sunday between 11 am and 2 pm, just as Peter Marmot was, but he needs to be summoned with a specific poem. During the search for the little glass-imp, Peter comes across another forest spirit, the enormous and dangerous Dutch-Mike, who haunts the forest as an evil sorcerer on stormy nights. Peter, however, is able to escape him. With the poem ""Schatzhauser in the green firwood, thou art many hundreds of years"
"as ""Shakespeare in the Arb is a hugely popular local summer tradition."" A particular favorite is A Midsummer Night's Dream. The play—with its natural setting, structure, and language—is perfect for presenting in the arboretum, which features dense heavy woods with mature trees, large lawns, steep hills, and a river. In 2015, A Midsummer Night's Dream was presented for the third time since the festival began. Shakespeare in the Arb Shakespeare in the Arb is an annual event, presented in the open, in Nichols Arboretum. Nichols Arboretum is a 123-acre (49.7 hectares) heavily wooded park, with large landscape lawns surrounded by"
"of ideal beauty which the dramatist here assigns to his imaginary princess.” Ganymede, the name she assumes in her disguise as a forest youth, is that of 'Jove's own page' (I, iii, 127), the most beautiful of all mortals, son of Tros and Callirrhoe, chosen by Jupiter to be his cup-bearer, and to dwell among the gods as his chosen servant. Rosalind (As You Like It) Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play ""As You Like It"" (1600) by William Shakespeare. She is the daughter of the exiled Duke Senior and niece to his usurping brother Duke Frederick."