As You Like It | |
Auhtor: William Shakespeare | |
| Language: english Published: 1599 Genres:drama, poetry, audiobookDownloads: 409 eBook size: 75Kb Review by Joanna Daneman, January 2005 Rating: (***) Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S. Please check the copyright status in your country. | |
Summary of the Book 'As You Like It':
Sir Thomas More (February 7 1478 - July 6 1535) also Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer social philosopher author statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important counsellor to Henry VIII of England and for three years toward the end of his life he was Lord Chancellor. He is also recognized as a saint within the Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion. He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. More coined the word utopia - a name he gave to the ideal imaginary island nation whose political system he described in Utopia published in 1516. He opposed the kings separation from the papal church and denied that the king was the Supreme Head of the Church of England a status the king had been given by a compliant parliament through the Act of Supremacy of 1534. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534 for his refusal to take the oath required by the First Succession Act because the act disparaged the power of the Pope and Henry?s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. In 1535 he was tried and executed for treason by beheading. More was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1886 and canonised with John Fisher in 1935. In 1980 he was added to the Church of Englands calendar of saints.
Excerpts from the Book 'As You Like It':
... sent this natural for our whetstone for always the dulness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How now, wit! whither wander you? TOUCHSTONE Mistress, ...
... that calling, To be adopted heir to Frederick. ROSALIND My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul, And all the world was of my father's mind: Had I ...
... look you call me Ganymede. But what will you be call'd? CELIA Something that hath a reference to my state No longer Celia, but Aliena. ROSALIND But, ...
... you in his will to give me good education: you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities. The spirit ...
... her scorn you still. SILVIUS O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her! CORIN I partly guess for I have loved ere now. SILVIUS No, Corin, being ...
... he eats And pleased with what he gets, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. JAQUES I'll give ...
... hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred And know some nurture. But forbear, I say: He dies that touches any of this fruit Till ...
... DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords, like foresters DUKE SENIOR Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life ...
... as the sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I say come. CORIN Besides, our hands are hard. TOUCHSTONE Your lips will feel them ...
... woman? when I think, I must speak. Sweet, say on. CELIA You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here? Enter ORLANDO and JAQUES ROSALIND 'Tis he: slink ...
... love, his mistress and I set him every day to woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing and ...
... 'Od's my little life, I think she means to tangle my eyes too! No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it: 'Tis not your inky brows, your black ...
... with your foulness and she'll fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her with bitter ...
... broken promise, and to give this napkin Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth That he in sport doth call his Rosalind. ROSALIND swoons CELIA Why, ...
... are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of ...
... straits of fortune she is driven and it is not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human as ...
... wolves against the moon. To SILVIUS I will help you, if I can: To PHEBE I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together. To PHEBE I will ...
... for good manners: I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous the second, the Quip Modest the third, the Reply Churlish the fourth, ...
... to you. AUDREY Ay, I know who 'tis he hath no interest in me in the world: here comes the man you mean. TOUCHSTONE It is meat and drink to me ...
... married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London ...