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As You Like It (1600) (Characters (Touchstone (artificial fool, comments…

- - - - = Jove/Zeus' cutbroker
        
        very attractive to men
      - freedom to speak & act as man of period, and privileges of speaking & acting as woman
  - - - satirical commentary
      - fails to persuade anybody to his point of view
      - Shakespeare uses him to satirise satiric mode
      - 'Jaques' = pun on current word for lavatory
  - - - Orlando enters forest, signalling beginning of his education.
- - - - characters seek to organise it
  - - - those seeking refuge
      - those intending evil
  - - - Oliver & Orlando
      - Touchstone & Jaques
    - - publicly acceptable & amusing to Elizabethans
  - - - Jaques & Touchstone are least satisfied away from court
- - - - moral purpose?
  - - - naturalism didn't exist as it does now
    - - Distances audience as they recognise separate world of fiction
      - subtle critique of society
- - - - Touchstone & Audrey illustrate socially liberated environment of Arden
  - - - financially sensible for Lord Chamberlain's Men to compete with other companies
      - not usually about shepherds, but people who arrive among them.
    - - Idyllic, fantastical presentation of landscape
        
        Senior's group when they enter forest.
      - Looser social structures. Nostalgic, simpler life away from complications of court.
        
        Nature is antithetical to art. Flawed as celebrants of pastoral ideal are poets & poetry is art.
        
        catalyst for necessary transformation
        
        disguise as opposite sex
      - language of pastoral
      - love & attainment of self-knowledge
        
        all characters gain something from pastoral experience.
    - - Corin draws attention to required labour.
      - Rosalind & Celia purchasing shelter = pastoral hierarchy