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As You Like It: characters
Principal characters
Rosalind
Duke Senior’s witty and resourceful daughter. Exiled from court, she adopts the disguise of a young man called Ganymede in the Forest of Arden.
Relationships
RosalindDuke SeniorfatherCeliacousin and closest friendOrlandobelovedDuke Frederickuncle who banishes herPhebeadmirer of her disguise as Ganymede
- Duke Seniorfather
- Celiacousin and closest friend
- Orlandobeloved
- Duke Frederickuncle who banishes her
- Phebeadmirer of her disguise as Ganymede
Speaks in 10 of 22 scenes
Looks
Not very tall, but tall for his age 1
Little physical strength 1
face
Beautiful 9
Pretty, but not very pretty 1
Less attractive than Rosalind 1
Red lips and rosy cheeks, lips a deeper, fuller red 1
dress
Chain around her neck 2
carried
Proposed cutlass at her thigh 1
Proposed boar-spear in her hand 1
other
Reasonably well-shaped leg 1
Three years old when she began conversing with a magician 1
- Orlando
- Celia
- Oliver
- Touchstone
- Jaques
The dukes and their followers
- Duke Senior
- Duke Frederick
- Amiens
- Charles
- Le Beau
Country characters
- Silvius
- Phebe
- Corin
- Audrey
- William
Other characters
- Adam
- Jaques de Boys
- Sir Oliver Martext
- Hymen