what is the irony of "as you like it" by shakespeare?
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http://www.bard.org/Education/resources/shakespeare/asyoutouching.html
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Shakespere wrote it.  It's from Henry V.  Part of a monolog by the king
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hate it nor love it.like it. its ok.when u HAVE to do something whether u want it or not, just like it.it will go on nice.don't hate it if u dont like it.
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Comedies - 17 (The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night; Or What You Will, The Winter's Tale, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, Pericles, Prince of Tyre)\n\nHistories - 10 (The Life and Death of King John, The Tragedy of King Richard II, The First Part of King Henry IV, The Second Part of King Henry IV, The Life of King Henry V, The First Part of King Henry VI, the Second Part of King Henry VI, The Third Part of King Henry VI, The Tragedy of King Richard III, King Henry VIII)\n\nTragedies - 10 (Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, King Lear, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra)\n \nVarious poems and sonnets\n\nThe plays of Shakespeare's last period are sometimes described as comedies, but might be better termed romances or tragicomedies; experimental, they are light-hearted and yet serious; romantically fanciful and yet symbolic.  They include Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.\n\nTroilus and Cressida has been described as a comedy or a tragedy, and is now generally regarded as a serious satire; All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure are dark comedies, as opposed to the so-called joyous comedies.
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/shakespeare/section10.html\n\n\nThis link gives a detailed analysis of the sonnet, which is known as Sonnet 73.
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Hey NiceGal\n\nWell I guess .. According to Shakespear "whats in a name" ... i.e "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose" even u call as a Rose or with any other name! It smells, looks and feels the same..\n\n  'U', 'ME' & 'SHAKESPEAR' different names , think n like the same ;-) HOW ROMANTIC ? \n Cheers,\nWebby.
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"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?/Deny thy father and refuse thy name/Or, if thou wilt not,be but sworn my love/And I'll no longer be a Capulet."\n\n"'Tis but thy name that is my enemy/Thou art thyself, though not a Montague/What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot/Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. O, be some other name!/What's in a name? that which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet/So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd/Retain that dear perfection which he owes/Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name/\nAnd for that name which is no part of thee/Take all myself."\n\n"What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?/Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end/O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop/To help me after?/I will kiss thy lips/Haply some poison yet doth hang on them/To make die with a restorative./Thy lips are warm."\n\n"Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!/This is thy sheath/There rust and let me die."\n\n\nyeah those are just a couple of the major ones. and i'm guessing since you haven't read it for yourself, the little backslashes mean it starts a new line. so there you go, enjoy.
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Irony is where something different happens than what is expected.  Why would Hamlet call the ghost poor?  Personally, I would be saying "Poor me!  I saw a ghost!  I have creepy powers and can see dead people!!!)
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A book is Underlined, a play or artical is quotes
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Ask Shakespeare, its his line (the answer is yes by the way.  A rose is a rose, call it whatever you want)
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I admire your sense of irony.
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In line 14, Shakespeare appears to be making fun of his own authority on love.
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Hate to break it to you, but Shakespeare is English, and modern English at that.
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From Shakespeare:\n\nA thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.\n\nBeggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.
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I don't think it is a joke at all.  Hamlet himself wonders if he lacks strength: "It cannot be but I am pigeon livered and lack the gall to make opression bitter".  I agree, however, that the answer is ultimately "no".  Hamlet sees the world as it is, and understands that real questions don't have easy answers.  It is interesting that his downfall is the one time he acts without thinking, and kills Polonius in the process.
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SONNET 29 PARAPHRASE \nWhen, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, When I've run out of luck and people look down on me, \nI all alone beweep my outcast state All alone I lament my fate as an outcast* \nAnd trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And pray to heaven but my cries go unheard \nAnd look upon myself and curse my fate, And look at myself, cursing my fate, \nWishing me like to one more rich in hope, Wishing I were like one* who had more hope in life \nFeatured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Wishing I looked like him; wishing I were surrounded by friends, \nDesiring this man's art and that man's scope, I desire this man's art and that man's range*, \nWith what I most enjoy contented least; I am least contented with what I used to enjoy most. \nYet in these thoughts myself almost despising, But in this mood almost despising myself, \nHaply I think on thee, and then my state, I think of you and then my state of sadness \nLike to the lark at break of day arising Like the lark at the break of day, rises \nFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; From the gloomy earth and I sing hyms to heaven; \nFor thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings For thinking of your love brings such happiness to mind \nThat then I scorn to change my state with kings. That then I would not change my state with kings.
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SONNET 29 PARAPHRASE \nWhen, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, When I've run out of luck and people look down on me, \nI all alone beweep my outcast state All alone I lament my fate as an outcast* \nAnd trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And pray to heaven but my cries go unheard \nAnd look upon myself and curse my fate, And look at myself, cursing my fate, \nWishing me like to one more rich in hope, Wishing I were like one* who had more hope in life \nFeatured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Wishing I looked like him; wishing I were surrounded by friends, \nDesiring this man's art and that man's scope, I desire this man's art and that man's range*, \nWith what I most enjoy contented least; I am least contented with what I used to enjoy most. \nYet in these thoughts myself almost despising, But in this mood almost despising myself, \nHaply I think on thee, and then my state, I think of you and then my state of sadness \nLike to the lark at break of day arising Like the lark at the break of day, rises \nFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; From the gloomy earth and I sing hyms to heaven; \nFor thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings For thinking of your love brings such happiness to mind \nThat then I scorn to change my state with kings. That then I would not change my state with kings. \nANALYSIS\n\n\n[Line 2]* - The poet's 'outcast state' is possibly a reference to his lack of work as a player due to the closing of the theatres in 1592. It also could be a reference to the attack on Shakespeare at the hands of Robert Greene (see below). \n\n[Line 5]* - Sometimes editors report that, in lines 5 and 6, the poet is referring to his friend, likely the Earl of Southampton. However, if lines 13 and 14 are addressed to the friend, then the previous reference to the friend in lines 5 and 6 seems out of place and illogical. It makes more sense to assume that lines 5 and 6 are not addressed to one person in particular, in keeping with the later references to "this man's art" and "that man's scope". \n\n[Line 7]* - "range" = "range of opportunity". \n\nSonnet 29 shows us the poet at his most insecure and troubled. He feels himself unlucky, disgraced, and jealous of those around him. What is causing the poet's anguish one can only guess, but an examination of the circumstances surrounding his life at the time he wrote sonnet 29 could help us to understand his depression. In 1592, the London theatres closed due to a severe outbreak of the plague. Although it is possible that Shakespeare toured the outlying areas of London with acting companies like Pembroke's Men or Lord Strange's Men, it seems more likely that he left the theatre entirely during this time, possibly to work on his non-dramatic poetry. The closing of the playhouses made it hard for Shakespeare and other actors of the day to earn a living. With plague and poverty threatening his life, it is only natural that he felt "in disgrace with fortune". Moreover, in 1592 there came a scathing attack on Shakespeare by dramatist Robert Greene, who wrote in a deathbed diary: "There is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." Shakespeare was deeply disturbed by this assault, feeling disgraced in "men's eyes" as well as fortune's.\n\nThe poet is so forlorn that even the passion for his profession as an actor seems to have died (8). But the sonnet ends with a positive affirmation that all is not lost -- that the poet's dear friend can compensate for the grief he feels. See the analysis of Sonnet 30 for more information.