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As You Like It

Shakespeare in the Arb

by Stephanie Rieke

posted 6/1/2004

Nature's ability to restore and transform is a long-standing theme in Western life and culture. In the eighteenth century, Queen Marie Antoinette often found it amusing to escape the perfumed protocol at Versailles by retreating to a country estate and dressing up as a rosy-cheeked milkmaid. As You Like It, Shakespeare's late sixteenth-century romantic

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