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As You Like It
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Henry IV
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Merchant of Venice
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Richard III
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Sonnets

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Quotes from the play right here.

Some more good stuff here on As You Like It

Some more good stuff here on As You Like It

As You Like It at Enotes -- wonderful site...

As You Like It Wordplay

Lastly, there is an enormous amount of word play in the text of As You Like It. In Act II, scene v, for example, Jaques sings a parody song in which the nonsense word "ducdame" is repeated three times. When he is asked what a ducdame is, Jaques replies that it is "a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle" (l.60). This type of amusing banter is the stock and trade of Touchstone, the great corrupter of language, a fool who is able to make his way through life on puns, malaprops, and the jestful use of language.

 
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