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LIFE…
 Born: 23 April,1564-Stratford,Avon.
 Pen Name: "Bard of Avon"
 Died: 26 April,1616 (Aged 52).
 Education: King Edward Grammar
School.
 Marriage: 29 November 1582.
 Occupation: Playwright, Poet and
Actor.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
 Shakespeare's plays communicate a profound
knowledge of the wellsprings of human behavior,
revealed through portrayals of a wide variety of
characters.
 His use of poetic and dramatic means to create a
unified aesthetic effect out of a multiplicity of vocal
expressions and actions is a singular achievement
and his use of poetry within his plays to express the
deepest levels of human motivation in individual,
social, and universal situations is considered one of
the greatest accomplishments in literary history. 
 Shakespeare was known in his day as a very rapid
writer. His mind and hand went together.
HIS WORK’S…
 Some of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet and Romeo
and Juliet, are among the most famous literary
works of the world.
 His dramatic career is generally divided into four
periods. In all periods, the plots of his plays were
frequently drawn from chronicles, histories, or
earlier fiction, as were the plays of other
contemporary dramatists. 
 His other work’s include- All's Well That Ends Well,
As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius
Caesar.   
OVERVIEW…
 Shakespeare's first plays were written in the
conventional style of the day. He wrote them in a
stylised language that does not always spring
naturally from the needs of the characters or the
drama.
 Shakespeare's complex sentence structures and use
of now obsolete words lead many students to think
they are reading Old or Middle English.
 He invented over 1700 of our common words by
changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into
adjectives, connecting words never before
used before.  
Summary of the plot or story
 As You Like It is considered by many to be one of
Shakespeare's greatest comedies, and the heroine,
Rosalind, is praised as one of his most inspiring
characters.
 Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke falls in love
with Orlando .
 When she is banished from the court by her usurping
uncle, Duke Frederick , Rosalind switches genders
and as Ganymede travels with her loyal cousin Celia
and the jester Touchstone to the Forest of Arden,
where his father and his friends live in exile.
 Rosalind marries Orlando happily. Two other sets of
lovers are also wed, one of them Celia and Orlando's
mean older brother Oliver.
History
 As you like it is a pastoral comedy
believed to have been written in 1599
or early 1600.
 The work was based upon the early
prose romance Rosalynde.
 The play's first performance is
uncertain, though a performance at
Wilton House in1603 has been
suggested as a at Wilton House in
1603 has been suggested as a
possibility.
 CELIA AND
ROSALIND ORLANDO ROSALIND

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