”As You Like It” only starts on the 26th minute

Very insightful clear and helpful. Thank you

Paul on the beam!
A bit slow to get into As You Like It, which I prefer as a play to Midsummer.

I just watched the Olivier version, I thought it was pretty bad too, and I have not even read the play. I have better taste than I thought!

I live in Stratford on Avon. Not in the town itself, but in the district. The town is even now surrounded by rural countryside. Warwickshire/Oxfordshire; this is is also Tolkien's country also of course. I have cause to work in London occasionally and I feel entirely our of my comfort zone. Actually I hate that place. I describe myself as a hobbit who belongs in the shire, not the city. So I entirely identify with W.S. in feeling like a bumpkin. How do we keep them in the farm when they have seen Paris? Well I'll choose the farm all day long.

49:56  These are both Will

sukruuspeare yea it's me :)

The measure of this man's greatness is his irrelevance. Things change fast.

His interpretations focusing on the political psychology of ερος and θυμος, the contrast between artifice and nature etc. is so much more interesting than all the postmodern focus on race and gender. Yes, there is some "crossdressing" if you want to call it such in the play, and no, Shakespeare wasn't a degenerate.

Can’t find Helen Mirren version.

Shame that the professor misspells Helen Mirren's name. He mines his own gentility.

Yap session

Listening to these out of order it was confusing which play is discussed before the lecture on AYLI. I have some disagreements with what I heard respecting R&J, but i'll write those down in the appropriate comment section. The most I can say here now is that we shouldn't automatically accept as true self-serving speeches.

I respect your insights but the comment about the speaking ability of the actors Rosalind wasn't appreciated.