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As You Like It Pastoral (Idyllic, fantastical presentation of landscape…
As You Like It Pastoral
Popular Renaissance genre
financially sensible to incorporate it into plays
not usually about shepherds, but people who arrive among them
serves to satirise the aspirations of educated city dwellers
Features
idealised landscape
love and art
simple
social antithesis
manners
class divsions
economic differences
Anti-pastoral
Corin's pastoral world
Corin draws attention to required labour
being proud of his work connects him to working-class pride & incipient revolt in Elizabethan England.
subject to laws of capitalist economy & its moral failings.
Rosalind & Celia purchasing shelter = pastoral hierarchy
Idyllic, fantastical presentation of landscape
Senior's group when they enter forest
Nature is antithetical to art. Flawed as celebrants of pastoral ideal are poets & poetry is art.
Silvius & Phoebe are Arcadian rustics
Silvius: locked in literary mode of being as
disdained lover in courtly literary tradition
this combined elements of pastoral with fashion for Petrarchan sonnet-making.
Violence, as component of culture's ideal of dominant masculinity, pervades language of courtly love.
moments of artificiality are undercut by realism
Rosalind's disguise
mentions of real country animals
Audrey is a real rustic
Country vs court
nostalgic, simpler life
looser social structures
catalyst for necessary transformation
Language