"geographical details are irrelevant. The Arden edition of Shakespeare makes the suggestion that the name ""Arden"" comes from a combination of the classical region of Arcadia and the biblical garden of Eden, as there is a strong interplay of classical and Christian belief systems and philosophies within the play. Arden was also the maiden name of Shakespeare's mother and her family home is located within the Forest of Arden. Love is the central theme of ""As You Like It"", like other romantic comedies of Shakespeare. Following the tradition of a romantic comedy, ""As You Like It"" is a tale of"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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 the woods, a river, and steep hills. The plays are moving events, with both performers and audience moving from location to location within the park as the play progresses. At each location a segment of the play is performed. The plays begin in the early evening, and are put on near the summer solstice as no artificial lighting is used. The park is near to"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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 ""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"
"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."
"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"
"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."
"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"
"mist and into Inglewood Forest. As daylight begins to fail and the weather closes in, the three of them arrive at the gates of a castle belonging to the Carle of Carlisle. Inglewood forest, near Carlisle, on the English borders with Scotland, lies about three hundred miles from Cardiff. This may possibly be a confusion on the part of the anonymous author of this tale. A principal city called Carduel is, after all, mentioned by Robert de Boron in his Arthurian tale of Perceval (the Didot Perceval) and by Paien de Maisières in his early-13th-century Arthurian poem ""La Mule sans"
"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"
"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"
"""Young"". Donovan set ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" to music and recorded it for ""A Gift from a Flower to a Garden"" in 1968. Michael John Trotta composed a setting of ""Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind"" for choir in 2013. According to the history of radio station WCAL in the US state of Minnesota, ""As You Like It"" may have been the first play ever broadcast. It went over the air in 1922. On 1 March 2015, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new production directed by Sally Avens with music composed by actor and singer Johnny Flynn of the folk rock"
"Under the Greenwood Tree Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name, and the first of his great series of Wessex novels. Whilst Hardy originally thought of simply calling it ""The Mellstock Quire"", he settled on a title taken from a song in Shakespeare's ""As You Like It"" (Act II, Scene V). The plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes"