The Forest of Arden

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Ross, James (20 November 2020). "Greater Landowners and the Management of their Estates in Late Medieval England". The Fifteenth Century XVIII: 93–104. doi: 10.1017/9781800101128.009. Woodlands were still common in Shakespeare’s England, though the Forest of Arden itself was already in decline. For Shakespeare woods have a whole series of symbolic meanings. They can be places of unlawful and horrific violence: the rape of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and the near-rape of Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona take place in forests. They can also be places of refuge: in a parallel with the legends of Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest, woodland provides a secular sanctuary for those on the run from the scheming life of the court, such as Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the banished Duke in As You Like It. The Arden Shakespeare is a long-running series of scholarly editions of the works of William Shakespeare. It presents fully edited modern-spelling editions of the plays and poems, with lengthy introductions and full commentaries. There have been three distinct series of The Arden Shakespeare over the past century, with the third series commencing in 1995 and concluding in January 2020. [1] Arden was the maiden name of Shakespeare's mother, Mary, but the primary reference of the enterprise's title is to the Forest of Arden, in which Shakespeare's As You Like It is set. [2] First Series [ edit ]

Rosalind, Celia, and Touchstone arrive in Arden in act 2, scene 4. When Rosaline says "Well, this is the Forest of Arden," Touchstone puts the forest into perspective. The names of many villages in the Arden area end with "ley" or "leigh", a Saxon suffix meaning "woodland clearing", and these settlements may have been cleared in Saxon times. Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare, was a member of this prominent West Midlands family. [12] Helen Mirren starred as Rosalind in the 1978 BBC videotaped version of As You Like It, directed by Basil Coleman. [48] The longest-running Broadway production starred Katharine Hepburn as Rosalind, Cloris Leachman as Celia, William Prince as Orlando, and Ernest Thesiger as Jaques, and was directed by Michael Benthall. It ran for 145 performances in 1950.

Forest of Arden

Act 1, scene 1 Orlando demands that his elder brother Oliver give him part of the money left by their father. Oliver decides to get rid of Orlando by encouraging him to take part in a wrestling match almost sure to be fatal. The Arden area is effectively bounded by Roman roads (shown in red on this map), the Fosse Way on the East side, and the Salt Road along the Southern boundary. The Forest of Arden provides that mental rest to the characters in which they come out of the falsehood of the world. It is a space of simplicity which has the role of soothing the misery of even a lover in despair because Orlando learns more about the ways of love in the forest than he knew in the court. The general editors for this series were Richard Proudfoot; Ann Thompson of King's College London; David Scott Kastan of Yale University; and H. R. Woudhuysen of the University of Oxford.

Orlando writes simple poems full of sincere emotions. Rosalind is free from the tyranny of her uncle and closer to her father. Her courage and wit are many times greater in the Forest of Arden. Audrey, whom Touchstone marries, and William, who was in love with Audrey, represent a second pastoral convention (Muir). True to convention, both are uneducated, dimwitted country bumpkins. Touchstone stages a temporary marriage to her, but Audrey insists on a real marriage, showing us that in some ways, Audrey is morally above Touchstone, who claims that courtly manners are superior to country manners (Muir). Presenting Audrey as morally above Touchstone further serves to satirize the pastoral convention of idealizing the mindless, simple stupidity of a country bumpkin above the educated but corrupt city dweller.The Historical Reality of Fantasy Forests: Arden, Sherwood, and Sambisa – as You Like It | Marin Shakespeare Company". 16 July 2014.

Virtually no Roman roads cross the region. It has been suggested that this was due to the difficulty of building roads through woodland. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords, like foresters DUKE SENIOR Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Religious allegory [ edit ] Illustration by Émile Bayard (1837–1891): "Rosalind gives Orlando a chain" Publisher Felix Dennis planted substantial areas of woodland in the area, known as the Heart of England Forest, and on his death in 2014 left most of his fortune to be used for this purpose. [30] 3000 acres (12.1km 2) have been planted in Spernall, Dorsington and Honeybourne. [31] Arden Forest scheme [ edit ] Ayres or Little Short Songs, Book 1 (Morley): Scores at the International Music Score Library ProjectAndrew Watkins (1997). "Landowners and their Estates in the Forest of Arden in the Fifteenth Century" (PDF). Agricultural History Review. 45 (1): 18–33. JSTOR 40275129. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Map showing the traditional territory of the Forest of Arden by reference to the Roam Roads that formed its boundary

During the English Restoration, the King's Company was assigned the play by royal warrant in 1669. It is known to have been acted at Drury Lane in 1723, in an adapted form called Love in a Forest; Colley Cibber played Jaques. Another Drury Lane production seventeen years later returned to the Shakespearean text (1740). [35]The general editors for this series are Suzanne Gossett of Loyola University Chicago; John Jowett of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham; and Gordon McMullan of King's College London. What sparked off the war was Marston’s version of the anonymous satire Histriomastix [1599], in which Jonson recognised himself in the character Crysoganus, a role not to his liking” (Anna Anzi, Storia del teatro inglese dalle origini al 1660, ch. III, Einaudi, Turin 1977, p. 151).