Act One
My father charged you in his will to give me good education: you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentlemanlike qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it.
Who is Orlando speaking to and why is this happening?
Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we not the penalty of Adam.
Why does Duke Senior love the woods?
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!
Why is Celia so happy?
Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were graveled for lack of matter, you might take occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking – God warn us! – matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
Why does Rosalind say this to Orlando?
No more but that I know the more one sickens, the worse at ease he is, and that he that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep; and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.
How does Corin's "philosophy" differ from Touchstone's?
I hope I shall see an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why, hates nothing more than he. Yet he’s gentle, never schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of all sorts enchantingly beloved
Who is Oliver speaking about and why?
Poor old man, thou prun’st a rotten tree that cannot so much as a blossom yield in lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. But come thy ways, we’ll go along together
Why does Adam say that he is a rotten tree?
Speaking to Adam.
Then there is no true lover in the forest, else sighing every minute and groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock.
What is Rosalind referring to?
Twice did he turn his back and purposed so; but kindness, nobler ever than revenge, and nature, stronger than his just occasion, made him give battle to the lioness
How is Oliver describing Orlando's actions?
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
How does Corin respond to Touchstone's condemnation for not knowing courtly manners?
The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
Who is Touchstone talking about?
O, thou didst then never love so heartily! If thou rememb’rest not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.
Why does Silvius claim this to Phoebe?
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel
Why does Rosalind characterize love as a madness?
Your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.
How does Rosalind describe to Orlando how Oliver fell in love?
No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love cause...But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
What is Rosalind claiming about Orlando's love?
What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue? I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.
Why can't Orlando speak in front of Rosalind?
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Why does Jacques rail against the world?
O, for shame, for shame, lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers. Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee.
Why does Phoebe scold Silvius this way?
[To Orlando] As you love Rosalind, meet. [To Silvius] As you love Phebe, meet. And as I love no woman, I’ll meet. So fare you well.
How does this interchange from Rosalind add humor to the play?
Why, how now, Adam? No greater heart in thee? Live a little, comfort a little, cheer thyself a little. If this uncouth forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or bring it for food to thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake, be comfortable. Hold death awhile at the arm’s end.
How does Orlando beg of Adam to hold onto his life while he tries to find food?
Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.
Why does Rolalind have to deal with her feelings?
Speaker: Celia
When I did hear the motley fool thus moral on the time, my lungs began to crow like chanticleer that fools should be so deep contemplative.
What impact did Touchstone have on Jacques?
Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
How has the tone of Phoebe's speech changed to Silvius?
Peace ho! I bar confusion; ‘Tis I must make conclusion of these most strange events. Here’s eight that must take hands to join in Hymen’s bands, if truth holds true contents
What does Duke Senior suggest in this line?
Why, thou sayst well. I do now remember a saying: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Why does Touchstone mention this to William?