As You Like It
- The Duke; in exile
- Friedrich; Brother of the Duke and usurper of his territory
- Amiens and Jacques; Noblemen who accompanied the Duke in exile
- Le Beau; a courtier in Frederick services
- Charles; Frederick Ringer
- Oliver, Jacob and Orlando; Sons of the Baron Rowland de Bois
- Adam and Dennis; served Oliver
- TOUCHSTONE; the fool
- Olivarius text Dreher; a pastor
- Corinnus and Silvius; shepherd
- Wilhelm; a peasant boy, falls in love with Kate
- ( A person who presents the hymen )
- Rosalinde; ( Daughter of the exiled Duke )
- Celia; ( Frederick's daughter)
- Phoebe; ( a shepherdess )
- Kate; ( a peasant girl )
- ( Nobles of the two dukes, pages, hunters and andres entourage )
As You Like It (English As You Like It) is a play by William Shakespeare.
The piece was brought on 4 August 1600 for printing, but its going to press at that time was apparently prevented. A note next to the entry reads: " ... to be staied ". It was the only one of four that day in the printer registers ( Stationers Register ) submitted pieces that remained permanently under the objection of custody and did not receive permission to print. For specific reasons have been mentioned. There is no quarto edition of this theater piece. Only 23 years later the work was first published in print in the first complete edition of Shakespeare ( Shakespeare Folio).
Action
Duke Frederick deposed his elder brother Duke Senior, who then in the forest of Arden goes into exile with a number of loyal Lords. Rosalind, the eldest daughter Seniors, remains at Frederick's court with a friend of hers whose daughter Celia. - After the death of Sir Rowland de Bois is his eldest son Oliver principal heir, his youngest son Orlando gets only a thousand crowns; Oliver also denied him a reasonable education. When a dispute is Orlando his older brother 's throat. Then Oliver, Orlando is planning to have come to grief in a wrestling match with the Hofringer Charles. Unexpectedly, however, Orlando wins the fight; the onlooking Rosalind and he fall in love. Orlando learns that Duke Frederick he is resentful and flees into the forest of Arden. Rosalind is banished by Friedrich. She decides to disguise herself as a man "Ganymede " and Celia follows her as a sister Aliena Ganymede. Together with the jester Touchstone they reach the Ardennes forest.
Together on a laid table at Duke Senior philosophizes the faithful Lord Jacques about life and the world:
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And Thereby hangs a tale. ( II.vii.26 -28) All the world 's a stage, And all the men and women Merely players; They have Their exits and Their entrances; ( II.vii.139 -141 )
Orlando has already been taken up by Duke Senior and writes for his long-lost love Rosalind poems he hangs on trees. Rosalind finds the poems, uses her disguise to interview Orlando about his true feelings for her, and declared as Ganymede, Orlando to cure his heartache when Orlando Ganymede as courting, as it were Rosalind, making Orlando agrees. Both fall in love but each other more and more. In the forest, take Touchstone and the goatherd Audrey to marry the decision. The young shepherd Silvius wooing the shepherdess Phoebe, but falls in love with Ganymede and the supposed man writing a love letter.
Idyll in the forest is threatened because Frederick Oliver sends out to find Orlando - so he hopes the two runaways Celia and Rosalind to get hold of. In the forest Oliver is almost killed, when the sleeper a snake slithering around his neck and then still appears a lioness, but rescued by the brave Orlando, who sells the animals; through this experience is Oliver a new man and the brothers are reconciled. Oliver and Celia fall in love and the wedding is to take place the next day. Orlando regrets that he can not marry his Rosalind, but Ganymede promises to make this possible by magic. At the wedding she pretends to be Rosalind to recognize Phoebe turns then to her admirer Silvius, and Touchstone and Audrey make their appearance. All four pairs of Hymen, the god of marriage, married and a great wedding feast begins. Amid the celebrations learns the wedding party that Duke Frederick on the way to the Forest of Arden a religious person met, who converted him to a peaceful life, and therefore Duke Senior returns his duchy.