Discussion

1) What is the modern word for players?

	Name (Shakespeare’s words)	Name (your own words)	Description (Shakespeare’s words)	Description (your own words)
1.	The infant	The baby	mewling and puking in his nurse’s arms	crying and being sick in his nurse’s arms

2) What are exits and entrances, parts and acts in the theatre? What are they in a person’s life?

3) Fill in the table with the information from the text. Name the seven stages of human life according to Jaques. Give an image that represents each stage. What metaphors and similies are used to describe different stages?

4) There is a negative criticism of each of the seven people. Who:

- keeps on complaining?

- wants fame so much that he’ll probably kill himself?

- looks rather ridiculous?

- sounds and smells awful?

- probably wouldn’t notice either the sound or the smell?

- will probably mature with age?

- sounds a real bore?

5) Explain the phrase bubble reputation.

6) As You Like It was written nearly four hundred years ago. How much are Shakespeare’s descriptions of people still true today? Do you know anyone that resembles one of the characters?

7) Shakespeare describes the ages of man very cynically. How could each person and age be described in a more flattering way?

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