Using the play As You Like It and the characters portrayed within it one might be able to see how our concept of gender may well be challenged. ... By carefully going through the text of As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., PP1591-1657) one can try to "dig in" to the characters portrayed and discover any challenge to our views of gender identity. ... So here one can see that Celia is jealous of Orlando. Celia is not the only woman in love with Rosalind. ... It would appear that homoerotic themes in As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., pp1591-1657) may well have been a reflection of how Shakespea...

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The play As You Like It, was written about 600 years ago by William Shakespeare, yet the morals of this poem are still discussed today. ... "My father charged you in his will to give me good education," he stormed at his eldest brother Oliver, "but you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities!" ... "Ten days," he told her, "If you outstay the time, you die." Celia, appalled at this harsh injustice, at once volunteered to accompany her cousin to the Forests of Arden taking the Court Jester for comfort. ... That is how Oliver made up with hi...

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In As You Like by William Shakespeare the search for love acts as the primary motive behind the actions of the play's three characters - Rosalind, Touchstone and Orlando. ... Thus , Rosalind , Touchstone and Orlando quest for love throughout William Shakespeare's As You Like It . ... Also , Rosalind has made clear to Celia her plans for the future. ... She says to him " I would cure you, if you would but call me / Rosalind and come every day to my cote and woo me , " (3.3416-417). ... In As You Like It by William Shakespeare the characters- Rosalind's Touchstone's,...

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Oliver appears cold and distant when he speaks with Orlando: "Now, sir, what make you here?" -And this contrasts greatly with the "sisterly bond" between Rosalind and Celia. ... When Celia bids her merry, her reply: "From henceforth I will coz, and devise sports. Let me see what think you of falling in love?" ... Scene 3 contrasts greatly with scene 2 as it is more like a tragedy, than the lighthearted humour as before. ...

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When Rosalind decides to cross dress as the shepherd Ganymede in Act I, scene 3 of As You Like It, she highlights the conceptions of gender as a central theme of the play. ... This can be seen in As You Like It act II, scene 4, when Rosalind breaks down and cries [unlike a man]. ... Like many of Shakespeare's plays and poems, As You Like It explores a variety of different kinds of love between members of the same sex. ... Indeed, Celia's words in Act I, scenes 2 and 3 echo the protestations of lovers. ... In drawing on the motif of homoeroticism, As You Like It is influenced by th...

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