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As You Like It: ‘I Can Suck Melancholy Out of a Song as a Weasel Sucks Eggs’

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Episode 188:

Following on from the last episode before the run of summer guest conversations we take a sharp swerve from ‘Henry V’ to ‘As You Like It’. Although we cannot be quite sure about the chronology in which Shakespeare wrote his plays, or how much the writing of one crossed over with the writing of another, whatever the precise order it is pretty clear that Shakespeare could move freely between the History and Comedy genres and within those how he was always pushing at the edges of the forms and conventions of the theatre and playwrighting to see what could work on stage and with language. ‘As You Like It’ is no exception to that.

The Dating of the play

The sources for the play

The possible first performance date

A brief synopsis of the play

The use of poetry and prose in the play

The play as part of the ‘Pastoral’ genre

The location of the play and influence of the forest

The character of Jacques

The character of Rosalind

The character of Touchstone

The ending, Hyman, and the masque

A summary of the performance history of the play

The epilogue

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