C'est mon propre résumé.
As you like it.
Wiliam Shakespeare
ACT 1
Scene 1.
Orlando, Adam, Oliver, Charles
*Story : Orlando talks with Adam. His brother Jacques is supposed to take care of him but doesn’t. The father is dead, left a little money to Orlando and put Jacques in charge of him. Olando quarrels with Oliver. He wants the latter to give him his due. Charles tells Oliver the new duke (Frederick) is expelling his brother the old duke. Then Oliver advises Charles to severely defeat Orlando at wrestling for if he doesn’t Orlando will come back at him by any mean. Oliver then says he will arouse his brother to make sure he’ll be willing to fight. (he may not have tried to dissuade him so).
Beloved by my own people : reference to Orlando’s friendship with Adam.
Scene 2.
Rosalind, Celia, Touchstone, Le beau, Orlando, Charles, Duke Frederick
Rosalind is the daughter of the expelled Duke and is banished as well. They speak about love. Touchstones enters. He tells Celia she has to go to her father. Le beau enters. He announces the wrestling. Orlando, Charles and Duke Frederick arrive. Orlando defeats Charles. Rosalind seems to have fallen in love with Orlando (give you more than a chain), he seems to have fallen in love with her as well. Frederick dislikes Rosalind for she is praised for her virtues and her father’s troubles. Also he wants Orlando to go for he has defeated Charles.
Scene 3.
Celia, Rosalind, Duke Frederick
Rosalind confesses her love for Orlando to Celia. The duke Frederick wants Rosalind to go away from the court. Celia decides to follow Rosalind and they go to the forest of Arden. Rosalind will be dressed like a man and called Ganimede. Celia will be called Aliena in reference to her condition (= outsider, alien).
ACT 2
Scene 1.
Duke senior, Amiens and two lords dressed like foresters.
They hunt in the forest. Jacques disapproves of their killing a deer (= stag).
Forest : personified ; praised by the Duke senior : good in everything. // death of the deer. Perhaps is danger introduced by the court => criticism court =/ nature
Scene 2.
Duke Frederick, Lords
Duke Frederick realised the girls had gone away. Orlando is being suspected.
Scene 3.
Orlando, Adam
Adam warn Orlando that Oliver wants to kill him by putting his lodge on fire. Also he gives him his savings and urge him to go. They go together.
Scene 4.
Rosalind, Celia, Touchstone, Corin, Silvius,
Rosalind Celia and touchstone arrive at the forest of Arden. Silvius is in love with Phoebe. Celia persuade Corin to help them to buy a cottage. è theme of love
Scene 5.
Amiens, Jacques, others
They walk and sing. Amiens goes to fetch the duke (the latter is grouchy).
Scene 6.
Orlando, Adam
Adam is starving, Orlando promises to feed him.
Scene 7.
Duke senior, lords, Jacques, Orlando, Adam
Jacques met Touchstone and reports it to the duke senior. Jacques wants to become gester to criticize the world and to reason, to change it and also to spread joy. Orlando appears with a sword and wants food. Savageness // civilisation => the duke behave courteously (mark of civility but still in a town he would have drawn his own sword). Orlando goes to fetch Adam. Tirade of Jacques => merely player etc … + the ages
The Duke learns Orlando is the Son of Sir Rowland and gets interested in what happened to him (The Duke senior/expelled duke liked Sir Rowland much).
ACT 3
Scene 1.
Duke Frederick, Lords, Oliver
Duke Fredericks want Oliver to bring him Orlando back, or never to return in the territory either.
Scene 2.
Orlando, Corin, Touchstone, Rosalind, Orlando, Jacques
Orlando’s tirade : he confess his love for Rosalind (but she isn’t on stage).
Touchstone and Corin discuss the opposition between the life of a shepherd and the one of the court. Philosophical discussion. Rosalind reads Orlando’s poem. Poem on the three : forest personification books in brooks takes a concrete dimension. + pastoral feature. Rosalind learns that it’s Orlando who writes the poems ; but he doesn’t know that she is in the forest too and dressed like a man. Orlando and Jacques enter and talk, the girls step aside and watch Orlando. Jacques and Orlando quarrel about whether being in love is or isn’t a good thing. Melancholy : absence of love ? etc … thinking. Then Rosalind addresses Orlando as Ganymede : as she does, a criticism of love is drawn => semantic field of illness ; given signs : lean cheek etc … She says she will cure him. He has to call her (Ganymede) Rosalind and to pretend he loves her. Orlando accepts. Subtleness : she actually is Rosalind ; and really try to cure him though (or it’s a test etc …)
Scene 3.
Touchstone, Audrey, Jacques, Sir Oliver Martext
Touchstone says Audrey isn’t poetical. Debate on the genuine nature of poetry. Touchstone wants to marry Audrey but as they find the vicar is not reliable (Jacques subtle : wants to give her but questions the vicar) they go to be married by someone else.
Scene 4.
Rosalind, Celia, Corin
Rosalind and Celia discuss the genuineness of Orlando’s feeling. Is a lover reliable ? Is love a true thing ? He is said to be a coward because he doesn’t come. But it may well be the countrary. He may not have come for he wanted to remain in love. Corin enters and informs the girls Silvius and Phoebe are conversing. Seeing lover feeds those in love => Rosalind once more confesses her love for Orlando.
Love / disdain => value of love ? < is to come
=/ couples raising different questions about love and offering different representations of it.
Scene 5.
Silvius, Phoebe, Rosalind, Celia, Corin,
Phoebe scorns the shepherd. Rosalind takes his sides and scorns Phoebe as Ganymede and tells her she shall be thankful of Silvius’s love for she isn’t so pretty. Phoebe says she will from now on tolerate Silvius’s love. She wants to write a bitter letter to Ganymede (Rosalind) as a revenge.
ACT 4
Scene 1.
Rosalind, Celia, Jacques, Orlando
Rosalind and Jacques discuss travelling. Rosalind’s tirade. Orlando enters. Rosalind makes him woo her as Ganymede and also marries him. Lots of mythological references (they pleased the learnt audience). Orlando then goes to eat with the duke and promise to be back in two hours. Rosalind is deep in love with Orlando.
Scene 2.
Jacques, Lords as foresters
The foresters celebrate their killing of the deer.
Consist mainly of a song : rielief + suspens => materialisation of the waiting for Orlando
Scene 3.
Rosalind, Celia, Silvius, Oliver
Silvius gives Rosalind the letter from Phoebe who seems to be in love with Ganymede. Rosalind through Silvius commands Phoebe to love Silvius. Oliver enters find the girls and says that he has met Orlando. Oliver was sleeping and would have been killed by lion if Orlando who was walking by hadn’t saved him. But Orlando has been injured. Beginning of the solution of the troubles. Oliver doesn’t hate Orlando anymore (=> “conversion”). Orlando didn’t let his brother be killed by the lion although the latter had contrived against him. Rosalind faints. As she recovers she calls Oliver “sirrah” => to a social inferior ; Oliver is inferior to the princess Rosalind but superior to Ganymede (shepherd / gentleman). è She was disoriented and stopped playing Ganymede’s role. She says she pretended and send Oliver back sating he must praise or acting to Orlando (as Ganymede).
ACT 5
Scene 1.
Touchstone, Audrey, William, Corin
Touchstone, knowing that William loves Audrey, wants to show his superiority in terms of wit and wittily puts the young unlearned fellow to question. He uses a lot of wit, therefore the saying he quotes apply to him : “the fool doeth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool”
+ formidable tirade
He threatens William of death. Then Corin fetch them as they are needed by Celia and Rosalind.
Scene 2.
Orlando with arm in a sling, Oliver, Rosalind, Silvius, Phoebe
Oliver is in love with Celia and therefore want to live in the forest as a shepherd to stay with her and will give his brother the estate. Rosalind tells Oliver she agrees (as Ganymede) and as Ganymede tells Orlando she can make Rosalind appear tomorrow and that he shall then marry her. The magic is permitted rather by her double identity.
Just as this trick is, the forest which is presented as magic isn’t. There are dangers in it and not only brought by those coming from the city (the death of the dear) => Orlando and the lions. What solves the trouble in this play is more love than magic. => “as you like it” : all along the play characters by games based on love try to please each other.
Theme of deception : Rosalind’s fainting , she present it as a pretending but indeed whereas she pretends having pretended, she has really fainted.
Phoebe loves Ganymede. Funny play => thing repeated thrice.
+ definition of love
Proleptic tirade of Ganymede which says they will all be satisfied the following day.
Scene 3.
Touchstone, Audrey, two pages
Two pages of the expelled Duke sing for Touchstone.
Song : maybe a popular song : or Shakespeare => lyrics ; Morley => music
Use of references shared by the audience.
Meaning of the song : thinking about the euphoria of love.
Scene 4.
Duke senior, Amien, Jacques, Orlando, Oliver, Celia, Rosalind, Silvius, Phoebe
Rosalind recapitulates the arrangement and make them (all the characters present) vow.
+ Audrey and Touchtone
Touchstone is mocked by Jacques, he challenged him so Touchstones uses wit to prove he has been a courtier. Dong so he draws a parody of the duelling system in the 16th century in England which was based upon codes he here ridiculises.
Quotation : Jacques : “He as good at anything and yet a fool”
+ Hymen : mythological God of Marriage
è Deus ex machina
yet not => play from Shakespeare
The eight marry into four couples.
+ Jacques the second brother
Jacques the second brother announces that the Duke Frederick who had planned to come with an army and to kill his brother has met a religious (ProbablySir Oliver Martext) and had been converted. He now restores their land to everyone and gives his brother his title back.
Everybody’s value is restored => Martext is a good vicar => conversion
EPILOGUE
The actor who played Rosalind speaks.
è kind of moral => do love each other as much as the characters of the play do, as well as, as much as you have loved the play.
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