Word: rosalinde
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...Like It, he decided to lay aside boisterous elements (such as Dogberry) and work at the problem of the swift, witty female (like Beatrice). What resulted was Rosalind, who spends much of her time, however, disguised as a boy. (But one must recall that, in Elizabethan times, such an idea was more plausible, for the interdict against women on the stage meant that female roles were played by boys anyway.) Shakespeare also tossed in court Fool (Touchstone) and misfit (Jaques)--both only partially successful...
Drawing on the experience of both plays, Shakespeare was then able to fashion a masterpiece, Twelfth Night, whose characters surpassed those in the two earlier works. Beatrice and the self-disguising Rosalind yielded the similarly self-disguising Viola; Dogberry and Co. led to Sir Toby and Co.; Jaques grew into Malvolio, and Touchstone (plus Amiens) into Feste...
...forest, the banished Duke wears rimless spectacles and lets his shirt hang out all the time. Jaques is in sandals. Sir Oliver Martext, garbed as a Victorian vicar, periodically bicycles on and off stage blowing a hideous horn. Rosalind, in disguise, sports a hunter's red cap; while her companion Celia appears with a white boa, hatbox, and birdcage, and even paints her eyelashes using a pool for a mirror...
...good humor and easy-going appeal of both of these earlier works? High comedy, the highest, in fact, like the magnificent series of exchanges of devotion in Act V. Scene 3: "And so am I for Phebe." "And so am I for Ganymede." "And so am I for Rosalind." "And so I for no woman," without the encumbrances of a plot. For the plot is happily forgotten after the first act, and everyone (or at least everyone at all important in the play) is free to fleet carelessly in the golden world of Arden. Nor do the fleeting characters present...
...Like It, the current offering of the Harvard Summer Players certainly fulfills and overfulfills these minimum criteria. Most of the actors both knew their lines and were able to speak them quite clearly. And, of course, not a few of them are a good deal better than that. As Rosalind, Jane Quigley is lively, deft, and confident. If her manly colloquialisms as the youth Ganymede occasionally savor more of the Bronx than of the Home Counties, why it is all spirited and very amusing...