Act 1
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.
Oliver
I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
Jacques
Who said this and where?
Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree the fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
Orlando
List the adverbs and the adjectives
Although she spoke quietly, everyone in the hall listened intently because her words carried unusual weight.
Adverbs
quietly (modifies spoke)
intently (modifies listened)
Adjective- unusual (modifies weight)
What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue? I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.
Orlando
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.
Orlando talking to Adam
Can you guess who the metaphor of the rotten tree is talking about?
Who said this?
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do... Yet I profess curing it by counsel.
Rosalind was telling Orlando that love is a form of madness that needs to be cured.
List the verbs and adverbs
Because the storm came suddenly and raged fiercely, the sailors struggled desperately to keep the ship afloat.
Adverbs
Suddenly, Fiercely, Desperately
Verbs
Came, Raged, Struggled, Keep
Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.
Celia
Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we not the penalty of Adam.
Duke Senior
Who said this?
Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Phoebe, she is explaining she has fallen in love with Rosalind/Ganymede
Where are the adverbs?
She works hard and she speaks very well.
Adverbs (irregular - don't end in ly)
Hard
Well
Very
Name all the action verbs
I hope I shall see an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why, hates nothing more than he.
hope, shall see, know, hates
Name the verbs and nouns
I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
Verbs
can (modal auxiliary)
suck
sucks
Nouns: melancholy (here used as a noun = sadness)
song
weasel
eggs
Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree the fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
Can you list all the verbs and adjectives?
Verbs=Run, Carve
Adjectives=Fair, Chaste, unimpressive.
What do you think he means by unexpressive?
List all the adverbs, which words are they describing?
In As You Like It, Rosalind speaks wittily and boldly, while Touchstone jokes cleverly yet sometimes foolishly, and the play ultimately celebrates love joyfully and universally.
wittily → describes speaks (how Rosalind speaks)
boldly → describes speaks
cleverly → describes jokes
foolishly → describes jokes
ultimately → describes celebrates (to what extent / finally)
joyfully → describes celebrates
universally → describes celebrates
Name all the nouns
What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue? I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.
Passion, weights, tongue, conference
Can you name the adjectives?
Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we not the penalty of Adam.
Free
Envious
Who said it?
Can you list the nouns?
"O, for shame, for shame, lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers.
Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee."
shame
eyes
murderers
wound
eye
List all the adjectives and what they describe.
In As You Like It, Rosalind is a clever and courageous heroine, Orlando is a loyal and romantic lover, Touchstone is a foolish yet insightful clown, and the Forest of Arden is a place of natural beauty and magical transformation.
clever → describes Rosalind
courageous → describes Rosalind
loyal → describes Orlando
romantic → describes Orlando
foolish → describes Touchstone
insightful → describes Touchstone
natural → describes beauty of the forest
magical → describes transformation in the forest