Shakepeare As You Like It
Drawing on both the introductory material as well as the text, argue for the ways in which characters in As You Like It “defy the fixed identities and the exclusionary choices of the everyday world, offering instead a world of multiple possibilities and transformable identities” (see page 1622 in The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition).
1. Which characters do this and how successful are they?-
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When it comes to disguise, Rosalind is the master. When her uncle, Duke Frederick, gets jealous because he feels that his daughter’s position as the most famous girl in the region is threatened, she is left with no choice but to run away to the Forest of Arden, which is the home of all exiles. She knows that getting there will pose a major threat to…
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