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As You Like It: Rosalind as Ganymede
All of William Shakespeare’s plays include a wide variety of characters, and his comedy, As You Like It, is no exception. There are characters that represent members of the high social class, or royal class, including both of the Dukes, Rosalind, Celia, Orlando, Oliver, and Jaques de Boys. On the opposite end of the social ladder are the servants Adam and Dennis, and in the middle are the members of the working class represented by Touchstone, Sylvius, Phoebe, Audrey, and others. Shakespeare’s way of differen....
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