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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 87: Dramatis Personæ

By William Shakespeare

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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

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Contents

Scene I. An Orchard near Oliver’s house

Scene II. A Lawn before the Duke’s Palace

Scene III. A Room in the Palace

Scene I. The Forest of Arden

Scene II. A Room in the Palace

Scene III. Before Oliver’s House

Scene IV. The Forest of Arden

Scene V. Another part of the Forest

Scene VI. Another part of the Forest

Scene VII. Another part of the Forest

Scene I. A Room in the Palace

Scene II. The Forest of Arden

Scene III. Another part of the Forest

Scene IV. Another part of the Forest. Before a Cottage

Scene V. Another part of the Forest

Scene I. The Forest of Arden

Scene II. Another part of the Forest

Scene III. Another part of the Forest

Scene I. The Forest of Arden

Scene II. Another part of the Forest

Scene III. Another part of the Forest

Scene IV. Another part of the Forest

Dramatis Personæ

ORLANDO, youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys
OLIVER, eldest son of Sir Rowland de Boys
JAQUES DE BOYS, second son of Sir Rowland de Boys
ADAM, Servant to Oliver
DENNIS, Servant to Oliver

ROSALIND, Daughter of Duke Senior
CELIA, Daughter of Duke Frederick
TOUCHSTONE, a Clown

DUKE SENIOR (Ferdinand), living in exile

JAQUES, Lord attending on the Duke Senior
AMIENS, Lord attending on the Duke Senior

DUKE FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of his Dominions
CHARLES, his Wrestler
LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick

CORIN, Shepherd
SILVIUS, Shepherd
PHOEBE, a Shepherdess
AUDREY, a Country Wench
WILLIAM, a Country Fellow, in love with Audrey
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar

A person representing HYMEN

Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other Attendants.

The scene lies first near Oliver’s house; afterwards partly in the Usurper’s court and partly in the Forest of Arden.