# As You Like It — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for As You Like It by William Shakespeare.

- [Act I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-i.md): As You Like It — Stage Lens: dramatic beats, line helps that follow your scroll, and stage picture. Read to understand, not to collect a closed thesis.
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-i-scene-i.md): Orlando complains to Adam about his mistreatment by his elder brother Oliver, who denies him education and inheritance. Oliver confronts Orlando, and after a heated exchange, Oliver plots with the wrestler Charles to har
- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-i-scene-ii.md): Rosalind and Celia discuss Rosalind's sadness over her banished father, then jest with Touchstone about fortune and nature. They witness Orlando wrestle Charles, and Rosalind falls in love with Orlando, giving him a chai
- [Scene III](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-i-scene-iii.md): Duke Frederick banishes Rosalind from court, and Celia vows to go with her. They devise a plan to flee to the Forest of Arden, with Rosalind disguising herself as a man named Ganymede and Celia as Aliena. They decide to 
- [Act II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-ii.md): As You Like It — Stage Lens: dramatic beats, line helps that follow your scroll, and stage picture. Read to understand, not to collect a closed thesis.
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-i.md): Duke Senior, exiled in the Forest of Arden, reflects on the sweetness of a life free from courtly pomp and flattery, finding value in adversity. He and his followers discuss the melancholy Jaques, who moralizes over a wo
- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-ii.md): Duke Frederick discovers that Rosalind and Celia have fled the court, along with Touchstone. He suspects the wrestler Orlando is with them and orders his brother Oliver to be brought before him to locate the runaways.
- [Scene III](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-iii.md): Orlando meets Adam outside Oliver's house, and Adam warns him that Oliver plans to kill him by burning his lodging. Adam offers Orlando his life savings of five hundred crowns and pledges to serve him faithfully. Orlando
- [Scene IV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-iv.md): Rosalind, Celia, and Touchstone arrive in the Forest of Arden, weary and hungry. They encounter the shepherd Corin and the lovelorn Silvius, whose passionate lament for Phebe mirrors Rosalind's own feelings for Orlando. 
- [Scene V](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-v.md): In the Forest of Arden, Amiens sings a song inviting a life of simplicity under the greenwood tree, free from enemies except winter and rough weather. Jaques, the melancholy lord, requests more songs, claiming he can 'su
- [Scene VI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-vi.md): Orlando and Adam, exhausted and starving in the Forest of Arden, stop to rest. Adam collapses, believing he will die, but Orlando encourages him to hold on while he searches for food, promising to carry him to shelter.
- [Scene VII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-vii.md): In the Forest of Arden, Duke Senior and his followers encounter Jaques, who recounts meeting a motley fool and muses on the world's folly. Orlando bursts in, demanding food for himself and his aged servant Adam. Duke Sen
- [Act III](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iii.md): As You Like It — Stage Lens: dramatic beats, line helps that follow your scroll, and stage picture. Read to understand, not to collect a closed thesis.
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-i.md): Duke Frederick confronts Oliver about Orlando's whereabouts, threatening to seize Oliver's lands unless he produces Orlando within a year. Oliver admits he never loved his brother, and the Duke orders him expelled and hi
- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-ii.md): Orlando hangs love poems on trees, then meets Rosalind disguised as Ganymede. She playfully offers to cure him of love, and they agree to a wooing game. Touchstone and Corin debate court versus country life. Jaques and O
- [Scene III](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-iii.md): Touchstone and Audrey prepare to marry in the forest, with Jaques observing and eventually intervening to counsel Touchstone against a hasty, informal wedding.
- [Scene IV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-iv.md): Rosalind, frustrated by Orlando's broken promise to meet her, expresses her sorrow to Celia, who teases her about Orlando's fidelity. Their conversation is interrupted by Corin, who invites them to witness a pageant of u
- [Scene V](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-v.md): In the forest, Silvius pleads with Phebe not to scorn him, but she rebuffs him harshly. Rosalind, Celia, and Corin observe from behind. Rosalind intervenes, scolding Phebe for her pride and lack of beauty, and urges her 
- [Act IV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iv.md): As You Like It — Stage Lens: dramatic beats, line helps that follow your scroll, and stage picture. Read to understand, not to collect a closed thesis.
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-i.md): In the Forest of Arden, Rosalind, Celia, and Jaques engage in a witty exchange about melancholy and travel. Orlando arrives late for his meeting with Rosalind, who playfully scolds him and tests his love through a mock c
- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-ii.md): In the Forest of Arden, Jaques and the foresters celebrate the killing of a deer with a mock Roman triumph and a song that playfully defends the wearing of horns as a natural and honorable crest.
- [Scene III](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-iii.md): Rosalind and Celia are in the forest when Silvius delivers a letter from Phebe, which Rosalind reads aloud and interprets as a love letter despite Phebe's harsh words. Silvius is sent back with a message. Oliver then arr
- [Act V](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-v.md): As You Like It — Stage Lens: dramatic beats, line helps that follow your scroll, and stage picture. Read to understand, not to collect a closed thesis.
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-v-scene-i.md): Touchstone and Audrey discuss the priest Sir Oliver Martext. Touchstone confronts William, a young man who claims Audrey, and threatens him into leaving. Corin then arrives to summon them away.
- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-v-scene-ii.md): Orlando consents to Oliver's sudden marriage to Aliena (Celia). Rosalind, still disguised as Ganymede, promises Orlando that she will produce Rosalind for him to marry the next day, claiming magical powers. Silvius and P
- [Scene III](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-v-scene-iii.md): Touchstone and Audrey prepare for their wedding the next day. Two pages sing a springtime love song, but Touchstone dismisses it as foolish.
- [Scene IV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-v-scene-iv.md): In the Forest of Arden, Rosalind orchestrates the resolution of multiple romantic entanglements, revealing her identity and arranging marriages. Hymen blesses the unions, and Jaques de Boys brings news of Duke Frederick'
- [Epilogue](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/as_you_like_it_se/chapters/act-v-scene-iv.md): Rosalind delivers the epilogue, playfully addressing the audience to win their approval of the play, acknowledging the convention of a male actor playing a female role, and charming both men and women with wit and flirta

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