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Show "As You Like It" Various commentators have advanced ad-vanced different theories as to why Shakespeare's play was given the! name "As You Like It." Braithwait, i however, in his "Barnahy's Journal," speaks of "As You Like It" as a' provorbiul motto, and this seems more likely to imply the true explanation of the title of Shakespeare's play. The1 title of the comedy may on this suf- j position be exactly parallel with that i of "Mu'-h Ado About Ncihing." The proverbial title of the play implies the freedom of thought and Indifference Indiffer-ence to censure which characterizes the sayings and doings of most of the actors In this comedy of human nature na-ture In a forest. |