As You Like It: Act 5 | Shakespeare Play by Play

Full As You Like It Playlist:    • As You Like It | Shakespeare Play by Play   Support this work on Patreon:   / amorsciendi   This video is a thematic analysis of William Shakespeare's play "As You Like It" centering on Act 5 and the play's exploration of Gender. Original Thumbnail art by Christina Mazurowski https://www.christinamaz.com/about Original music by August White. All quotations and line numbers from the play come from the Folger Shakespeare Library online text since that is the most accessible full text version available online. https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakes... Contents: 0:00 Intro 1:53 Scene 1 3:09 Scene 2 6:35 Scene 4 8:30 Critics disagree 10:23 Epilogue Bibliography: Aspinall, Dana E. Shakespeare - As You Like It. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Barber, C. L. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom. Princeton University Press, 2011. Belsey, Catherine. “Gender in a Different Dispensation: The Case of Shakespeare.” DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 7–19. https://doi.org/10.11116/jdivegendstu.... Erickson, Peter B. “Sexual Politics and the Social Structure in ‘As You like It.’” The Massachusetts Review 23, no. 1 (1982): 65–83. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25089244. Fitter, Chris. “Reading Orlando Historically: Vagrancy, Forest, and Vestry Values in Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It.’” Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 23 (2010): 114–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24322561. Frye, Northrop. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance. Columbia University Press, 1965. Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton University Press, 2020. Frye, Northrop. “The Argument of Comedy.” In Northrop Frye’s Writings on Shakespeare & the Renaissance. University of Toronto Press, 1949. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689886.... Howard, Jean E. “Crossdressing, The Theatre, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England.” Shakespeare Quarterly 39, no. 4 (1988): 418–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/2870706. Lewis, Cynthia. “Horns, the Dream-Work, and Female Potency in ‘As You like It.’” South Atlantic Review 66, no. 4 (2001): 45–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/3202060. Marshall, Cynthia. “Wrestling as Play and Game in As You like It.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 33, no. 2 (1993): 265–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/450999. Neely, Carol Thomas. “Destabilizing Lovesickness, Gender, and Sexuality: Twelfth Night and As You Like It.” In Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture, 99–135. Cornell University Press, 2004. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.... Rokison-Woodall, Abigail. As You Like It: Language and Writing. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Shakespeare , William. “As You Like It - Entire Play.” Folger. Accessed January 18, 2026. https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakes.... Shakespeare, William. As You like It-Arden Shakespeare: Third Series. Edited by Juliet Dusinberre. Turtleback Books, 2005. Tomarken, Edward. As You Like It: Critical Essays. Routledge, 2014. UHLIG, CLAUS. “‘The Sobbing Deer’: ‘As You Like It’, II.i.21-66 and the Historical Context.” Renaissance Drama 3 (1970): 79–109. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41917057. Weindling, Lauren. “‘I Do Play the Touch’: Touchstone and Testing in As You Like It.” Studies in Philology 121, no. 1 (2024): 135–62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27311436. Williams, George Walton, and John Garrett. “More Talking of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Quarterly 13, no. 2 (1962): 240. https://doi.org/10.2307/2866794. Other Playlists: Romeo and Juliet:    • Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare Play by Play   Macbeth:    • Macbeth | Shakespeare Play by Play   Twelfth Night:    • Twelfth Night | Shakespeare Play by Play   Othello:    • Othello