| “This life is most jolly” | AMIENS (Act 2, Scene 7) |
| “Here we see no enemy, but winter and rough weather” | Subverting pastoral idea of weather – AMIENS (Act 2, Scene 5) |
| “Joy is to see my lambs suck” | … |
| “Sit down and feed and welcome to our table” | Self Sufficiency DUKE SENIOR (Act 2, Scene 7) |
| “Fleet their time carelessly”… “as they did in the golden world” | Leisure CHARLES (Act 1, Scene 1) |
| “Are these woods not more free from peril from this envious court?” | Monologue – DUKE SENIOR (Act 2, Scene 1) |
| “To join in Hymen’s hands” | Biblical Reference – Spiritual -HYMEN (Act 5, Scene 4) |
| “There’s no clock in the forest” | Free from constrictions – undermined later on in the play ORLANDO (Act 3, Scene 2) |
| “Now we go in content, to liberty and not to banishment” | free from the harshness of the court CELIA (Act 1, Scene 3) |
| “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” | Seven stages of man JAQUES (Act 2, Scene 7) |
| “The worse fault you can have is to fall in love” | Undermines pastoral concept of love JAQUES (Act 3, Scene 2) |
| “Let the forest judge” | Judge has connotations of law therefore can be associated with the court. TOUCHSTONE (Act 3, scene 2) |
| “Break his neck and his finger” | The court is much more violent then Arden -Country vs. Town concept OLIVER (Act 1, Scene 1) |
| “Golden World” | a time of eternal spring and innocence without labor and laws – Pastoral Element |
| “I am a shepherd to another man and do not sheer the fleece that I graze” | Subverting pastoral convention CORIN (Act 2, Scene 4) |
| Critical Quote – Richard Wilson | The play is powerfully infected by narratives of popular resistance whilst its plot… Is the brutal story of Elizabethan social transformation |
| “From hour to hour, we rot and rot” | Act 2, Scene 7 – time, subverting against the pastoral conventions |
| “Merry men” | Idea of leisure |
| “Men are April when they woo, Decemeber when they wed” | Pathetic fallacy – the change in men from getting married to being married |
As You Like It
July 2, 2019