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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Pineas, Rainer
Affiliation: Professor Of English, York College, City University Of New York

As You Like It: Act 5

Act 5: Scene 1

Touchstone and Audrey enter, engaged in conversation. Audrey has
evidently been asking Touchstone when he is going to marry her, for Touchstone
tells her to have patience; he is just waiting for a suitable time. Audrey
(evidently not too convinced) says she cannot understand why they were not
married by Sir Oliver Martext; there was nothing wrong with him, she thinks.
Touchstone does not agree and then changes ...

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