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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
I liked "As You Like It" quite a bit. It has similarities to other works by Shakespeare -- characters in disguise and falling in love at the first glance. But it's also very charming and a nice little story, making for a fun read.
Read for ENGL 339: Studies in Shakespeare. Read with audiobook accompaniment from Arkangel Shakespeare.
The travails of Rosalind, Orlando, Celia, Oliver, Touchstone, Audrey, Silvius, and Phoebe in a comedy about the push-pull of city vs. country set in the magical Forest of Ardenne.
Rosalind is a great character, but the asides of fool Touchstone and Debbie Downer jaques left me more than a little bored. I also found the "lessons" of Rosalind/Ganymede to Orlando bizarre and a ridiculous plot point, even for a playwright who thrives on cross dressing narratives. Not my favorite.
U of M, 2024
Rosalind is a great character, but the asides of fool Touchstone and Debbie Downer jaques left me more than a little bored. I also found the "lessons" of Rosalind/Ganymede to Orlando bizarre and a ridiculous plot point, even for a playwright who thrives on cross dressing narratives. Not my favorite.
U of M, 2024
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No
Sorry, but nothing can make me like Shakespeare.
I only wish I'd had more time with it, to study the language more, because the language is really quite beautiful but difficult to understand. At times I felt so overwhelmed with the poetry that I couldn't follow the plot: I think more training would fix that anxiety.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
Given as part of the course-work for BADA Summer 1999 in Oxford. The (very useful and well-researched) introduction is almost as long as the play itself! Loads of footnotes to help comprehension for the lay-reader.
LOTS of witty banter and puns, rich & colorful characters (esp. Rosaline), but not as much poetry or "great lines" as you might find in some of the other plays. The recurring we're-in-a-play meta-joke is particularly interesting because Rosalind is both in love, and playing at being in love--- & maybe that's love at its best (I'm taking this thought from Harold Bloom, I think).