DUNEDIN SHAKESPEARE CLUB
On Thursday the Dunedin Shakespeare Club will Rive a reading of "As You Like It.” Shakespeare drew his plot from Lodge’s “Rosalynd.” The resemblance between the two works is, however, only nominal and superficial, the spirit of the play and the personality of Shakespeare's characters being absolutely distinct from the spirit of the novel and the personality of Lodge’s characters, and there is no trace in the novel of Jaques, Touchstone, or Audney. The general character of the play is suggested by the title. The scene opens on city life, with all its degrading passions, and closes on a woodland marriage festival, where all wrongs are righted exactly “As You Like It.” Oliver and Frederick repent and amend, Orlando marries Rosalind, and Oliver marries Celia; the good duke is restored by the usurper to his dominions, and — most fortunately—leaves Jaques behind in the forest. Shakespeare was probably trying to show that almost all characters which have been “ acquainted with grief ” come subsequently to perfection if they only have a fair chance—if they are not hampered by artificial restraint.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21446, 22 September 1931, Page 11
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181DUNEDIN SHAKESPEARE CLUB Otago Daily Times, Issue 21446, 22 September 1931, Page 11
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