"All the world's a stage," says Jacques in a famous speech from As You Like It about life and the passage of time. Take this quiz to see if you can correctly order the lines that follow.
Take a closer look at a 19th-century oil painting in the Folger collection that depicts all seven ages of man from Jaques's speech in Shakespeare's "As You Like It."
The most famous book about Renaissance melancholy, Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), celebrates its four hundredth anniversary this year. Though it was published five years after Shakespeare’s death, it gathers together ideas about melancholy from antiquity right through to the seventeenth century.
Excerpt — ‘Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy’ by Paula Marantz Cohen
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Shakespeare & Beyond
“Its sense of empathy for the gendered position—and the pains and difficulties that accompany it on both sides—is at the heart of its comic warmth,” writes Paula Marantz Cohen about Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” in this excerpt from her new book, “Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy.”
Outdoor Shakespeare: The pioneers of a summer tradition
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Georgianna Ziegler
Shakespeare by the sea, on the river, in the park or garden, on the common – in the summertime Shakespeare’s plays are everywhere outdoors! High-profile shows in New York’s Central Park or at Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival may come to…
Rosalind: Shakespeare's Immortal Heroine - an excerpt
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Esther French
Read an excerpt from "Rosalind: Shakespeare's Immortal Heroine" by Angela Thirlwell, in which she traces the performance history of "As You Like It" and interviews famous actresses who have played this role onstage.
Love letters in Shakespeare: As You Like It, Hamlet, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Esther French
We look at three instances of love letters in Shakespeare’s plays: Orlando’s love poems to Rosalind in As You Like It, Hamlet’s passionate missive to Ophelia in Hamlet, and Proteus’s romantic letter to Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Folger Finds delivers delightful and insightful moments with the Folger collection. Sarah Hovde, a cataloger at the Folger Shakespeare Library, shares the story behind a 1910 Esperanto edition of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Heard any Esperanto lately? Designed by…
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