It's more than the convention in such plays is that we accept that by wearing new clothes characters look totally different, which means that he has room to play with a sense of "maybe he does know its her"
Late to the party as ever, I have just finished AYLI. Henry, is there any point at which R launches a sustained attack on O's stereotypical Petrarchan woo-ing? How does she teach him to see the real woman behind the blazon?
“To become wise lovers, they must be fools in the forest first.” 💯 nonetheless where is that forest that we can go to ? To be the fools first ?
Ah yeh not so easy…
I did read your essay - and enjoyed it - but I don't see how R's deception prompts O to see her. Apologies for missing the point.
It's more than the convention in such plays is that we accept that by wearing new clothes characters look totally different, which means that he has room to play with a sense of "maybe he does know its her"
Late to the party as ever, I have just finished AYLI. Henry, is there any point at which R launches a sustained attack on O's stereotypical Petrarchan woo-ing? How does she teach him to see the real woman behind the blazon?
These lines have some of it
ROSALIND
Now tell me how long you would have her after you
have possessed her.
ORLANDO
For ever and a day.
ROSALIND
Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando;
men are April when they woo, December when they wed:
maids are May when they are maids, but the sky
changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous
of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,
more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more
new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires
than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana
in the fountain, and I will do that when you are
disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and
that when thou art inclined to sleep.
ORLANDO
But will my Rosalind do so?
ROSALIND
By my life, she will do as I do.
ORLANDO
O, but she is wise.
ROSALIND
Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the
wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's
wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and
'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly
with the smoke out at the chimney.
That does it! Thank you!
sure thing
yes there is a scene but I cannot remember it rn, will look later on