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- Herausgeber: Krill Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
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AS YOU LIKE IT
William Shakespeare
MASQUERADE PRESS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
As You Like It
Introduction
Characters of the Play
Act I
Scene I. Orchard of Oliver’s house.
Scene II. Lawn before the Duke’s palace.
Scene III. A room in the palace.
Act II
Scene I. The Forest of Arden.
Scene II. A room in the palace.
Scene III. Before Oliver’s house.
Scene IV. The Forest of Arden.
Scene V. The Forest.
Scene VI. The forest.
Scene VII. The forest.
Act III
Scene I. A room in the palace.
Scene II. The forest.
Scene III. The forest.
Scene IV. The forest.
Scene V. Another part of the forest.
Act IV
Scene I. The forest.
Scene II. The forest.
Scene III. The forest.
Act V
Scene I. The forest.
Scene II. The forest.
Scene III. The forest.
Scene IV. The forest.
Epilogue
As You Like It
By
William Shakespeare
As You Like It
Published by Masquerade Press
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First published 1603
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AS YOU LIKE IT
INTRODUCTION
AS YOU LIKE IT IS a pastoral comedy written by William Shakespeare, in 1599 or early 1600. As You Like It was listed in the Stationers’ Register, the period equivalent of copyright, in August 1600. No printed copy of it is known prior to the publication of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s collected works in 1623. The real life village of Hampton-in-Arden was used as the setting for the play.
Shakespeare drew the story for As You Like It from a story called “Rosalynde, Euphues’ Golden Legacy” written by Thomas Lodge and published in 1590. In Shakespeare’s version, Frederick has usurped the Duchy and exiled his older brother, referred to only as the Duke. The Duke’s daughter Rosalind has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend of Frederick’s only child, Celia. Orlando, a young gentleman of the duchy who has fallen in love with Rosalind, is forced to flee his home after being persecuted by his older brother, Oliver. Frederick becomes angry and orders Rosalind to flee his court. Celia and Rosalind decide to flee together accompanied by the jester Touchstone, with Rosalind disguised as a young man.
Rosalind, now known as Ganymede, and Celia, now known as Aliena, arrive in the Forest of Arden, where the exiled Duke now lives with some supporters, including Jacques. Orlando has found the Duke and his men already and is living with them and posting love poems for Rosalind on the trees. Rosalind, also in love with Orlando, meets him as Ganymede and pretends to counsel him to cure him of being in love. Meanwhile, the shepherdess Phebe, with whom Silvius is in love, has fallen in love with Ganymede.
Orlando sees Oliver in the forest and rescues him from a lioness, causing Oliver to repent of mistreating Orlando. Oliver meets Aliena and falls in love with her, and they agree to marry. Orlando and Rosalind, Oliver and Celia, Silvius and Phebe, and Touchstone and Audrey all are married in the final scene, after which they discover that Frederick has also repented his faults, deciding to restore his legitimate brother to the dukedom and adopt a religious life.
The elaborate gender reversals in the story are of particular interest to many modern critics with their love of gender analysis. At one point, Rosalind — who in Shakespeare’s day would have been a boy playing a girl — becomes a girl pretending to be a boy pretending to be a girl.
In Act II, Scene 7, line 138, it features one of Shakespeare’s greatest monologues, which begins:
“All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages . . . ”
As You Like It also features much humorous and clever wordplay, and several entangled love affairs, all in a serene pastoral setting which makes it often especially effective staged outdoors in a park or similar site.
As You Like It has always been among the most produced of Shakespeare’s plays.
CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY
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.
ACT I
SCENE I. ORCHARD OF 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 sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.
Adam
Yonder comes my master, your brother.
Orlando
Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up.
Enter Oliver
Oliver
Now, sir! what make you here?
Orlando
Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.
Oliver
What mar you then, sir?
Orlando
Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.
Oliver
Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.
Orlando
Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should come to such penury?
Oliver
Know you where your are, sir?
Orlando
O, sir, very well; here in your orchard.
Oliver
Know you before whom, sir?
Orlando
Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle condition of blood, you should so know me. The courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the first-born; but the same tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is nearer to his reverence.
Oliver
What, boy!
Orlando
Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
Oliver
Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?
Orlando
I am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot villains. Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself.
Adam
Sweet masters, be patient: for your father’s remembrance, be at accord.
Oliver
Let me go, I say.
Orlando
I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My father charged you in his will to give me good education: you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.
Oliver
And what wilt thou do? beg, when that is spent? Well, sir, get you in: I will not long be troubled with you; you shall have some part of your will: I pray you, leave me.
Orlando
I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good.
Oliver
Get you with him, you old dog.
Adam
Is ‘old dog’ my reward? Most true, I have lost my teeth in your service. God be with my old master! he would not have spoke such a word.
Exeunt Orlando and Adam
Oliver
Is it even so? begin you to grow upon me? I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!
Enter Dennis
Dennis
Calls your worship?
Oliver
Was not Charles, the duke’s wrestler, here to speak with me?
Dennis
So please you, he is here at the door and importunes access to you.
Oliver
Call him in.
Exit Dennis
’Twill be a good way; and to-morrow the wrestling is.
Enter Charles
Charles
Good morrow to your worship.
Oliver
Good Monsieur Charles, what’s the new news at the new court?
Charles
There’s no news at the court, sir, but the old news: that is, the old duke is banished by his younger brother the new duke; and three or four loving lords have put themselves into voluntary exile with him, whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke; therefore he gives them good leave to wander.
Oliver
Can you tell if Rosalind, the duke’s daughter, be banished with her father?
Charles
O, no; for the duke’s daughter, her cousin, so loves her, being ever from their cradles bred together, that she would have followed her exile, or have died to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter; and never two ladies loved as they do.
Oliver
Where will the old duke live?
Charles
They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Oliver
What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke?
Charles
Marry, do I, sir; and I came to acquaint you with a matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition to come in disguised against me to try a fall. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Your brother is but young and tender; and, for your love, I would be loath to foil him, as I must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore, out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you withal, that either you might stay him from his intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall run into, in that it is a thing of his own search and altogether against my will.
Oliver
Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had myself notice of my brother’s purpose herein and have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from it, but he is resolute. I’ll tell thee, Charles: it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against me his natural brother: therefore use thy discretion; I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger. And thou wert best look to’t; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise against thee by poison, entrap thee by some treacherous device and never leave thee till he hath ta’en thy life by some indirect means or other; for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak it, there is not one so young and so villanous this day living. I speak but brotherly of him; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder.
Charles
I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come to-morrow, I’ll give him his payment: if ever he go alone again, I’ll never wrestle for prize more: and so God keep your worship!
Oliver
