what aspects did Shakespeare show or presented in this specific play? How can you compare it to the time he lived in? For example he might have criticized politics or the queen. What is this play about?
2007-09-30 04:38:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Among other things, the play is a pastoral, which means a story of country living. Pastorals were very popular because the crowded cities were full of filth, crime, disease and misery(just like today). If you read the play you will find out the story and perhaps enjoy it, it is one of the easiest of his plays to understand.
2007-09-30 06:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This play seems the most rooted in his early life from all the others in his canon. The forest Arden is apparently named after his mother's maiden name. She was daughter of a rich landowner. Shakespeare's father was an alderman (like a city councilman) among other things and so Shakespeare would have been exposed to rural politics at an early age. He probably spent a lot of time in the local woods fantasizing when he was young. He would have been exposed to shepherds and other rural folk. His tutor Mr. Cottam (one of my ancestors) may very well have been a model for the philosopher Jacques.
2007-09-30 14:07:48 · answer #2 · answered by DramaGuy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋