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      William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee

      AS YOU LIKE IT

      Including The Life of William Shakespeare

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Table of Contents

       As You Like It

       Persons Represented

       ACT I

       ACT II

       ACT III

       ACT IV

       ACT V

       EPILOGUE

       The Life of William Shakespeare

       PREFACE

       I—PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

       II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE

       III—THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD

       IV—ON THE LONDON STAGE

       V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

       VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC

       VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY

       VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS

       IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON

       X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS

       XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER

       XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE

       XIII—MATURITY OF GENIUS

       XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY

       XV—THE LATEST PLAYS

       XVI—THE CLOSE OF LIFE

       XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS

       XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS

       XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

       XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

       XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATE

       APPENDIX

      As You Like It

      

       Persons Represented

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       DUKE, living in exile

       FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of his Dominions

       AMIENS, Lord attending on the Duke in his Banishment

       JAQUES, Lord attending on the Duke in his Banishment

       LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick

       CHARLES, his Wrestler

       OLIVER, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois

       JAQUES, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois

       ORLANDO, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois

       ADAM, Servant to Oliver

       DENNIS, Servant to Oliver

       TOUCHSTONE, a Clown

       SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar

       CORIN, Shepherd

       SILVIUS, Shepherd

       WILLIAM, a Country Fellow, in love with Audrey

       A person representing HYMEN

       ROSALIND, Daughter to the banished Duke

       CELIA, Daughter to Frederick

       PHEBE, a Shepherdess

       AUDREY, a Country Wench

       Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other Attendants.

       The SCENE lies first near OLIVER’S house;

       afterwards partly in the Usurper’s court

       and partly in the Forest of Arden.

ACT I

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      SCENE I. An Orchard near OLIVER’S house

       [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM.]

       ORLANDO

       As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion,—bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say’st, charged my brother, on his