as you like it
Rosalind - Rosalind dominates As You Like It. ... Her emergence as an actor in the Epilogue assures that theatergoers, like the Ardenne foresters, are about to leave a somewhat enchanted realm and return to the familiar world they left behind. ... I am not furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become me. ... I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you. ... The theater, like Ardenne itself, is an escape from reality where the wonderful, sometimes overwhelming complexities of human life can be witnessed, contemplated, enjoyed, and studied. ... Rosalind dominates As You Like It. ... Her emergence as an actor in the Epilogue assures that theatergoers, like the Ardenne foresters, are about to leave a somewhat enchanted realm and return to the familiar world they left behind. ... She goes on to upbraid him for being ungrateful for her attempts to educate him: "When thou didst not, savage, / Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like / A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes / With words that made them known" (358–361).