By Maurice A. Hunt
This booklet is a examine of As you're keen on It, which exhibits how the play represents problems with curiosity to literate playgoers of its time, in addition to speculatively to Shakespeare himself.
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Still, whatever the case, marrying, whether in the springtime or summer of life (when generation is possible), becomes the sanctified institution—as previously mentioned—for begetting the child who begins the series of generations of children who introduce the original couple into the potentially perpetual cycle of the seasons, both human and natural, with the aged grandparent seeing his or her rebirth in the new grandchild. 57, 58–59), Rosalind begins to coordinate the time of her own and others’ happiness.
226–27). Throughout the pastoral scenes of As You Like It, Shakespeare counterpoints the lovers’ eagerness to fulfill or memorialize their love instantaneously with references to the time required for its growth. Orlando expresses his desire for Rosalind in inflated, adolescent poetry in which his impatience colors his view of 36 / shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT humankind’s relatively “brief” life span. 123), proposed for hanging on a bough, chronicles . . how brief the life of man Runs his erring pilgrimage, That the stretching of a span Buckles in his sum of age.
In the forest of Arden, Duke Senior claims that Here feel we not the penalty of Adam, The seasons’ difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter’s wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say KAIROS and the ripeness of time / 31 “This is no flattery. 5–11) The Golden Age was a timeless realm, a perpetual spring of happiness and innocence and leisure. It was during the subsequent Silver Age that the god Jupiter shortened the Spring and divided it into the four seasons.