College Debaters Take High Honors
VOLUME 96, NUMBERCAMPUS 33 ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1973 Sunday afternoon Touring company to perform As You Like It The Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, in their fifth season of American university touring, will present As You Like It by William Shakespeare, at Allegheny on Sunday, January 14. The popular romantic comedy will be staged in the Campus Center auditorium at 2:30 p.m. Writing As You Like It around 1599 to please his large and diversified audience, Shakespeare developed the fashionable myths that rural living is superior to city dwelling, and lovers always fall in love at first sight and become miraculously eloquent about it. Taking the plot from the novel Rosaly-nde by Thomas Lodge, published in 1590 Shakespeare's story is much swifter and clearer for he takes it much less seriously than Lodge did. As the play opens, Duke Frederick has usurped the dukedom of his elder brother, Duke Senior, who is living in exile in the Forest of Arden. Frederick's daughter, Celia, and his brother's daughter, Rosalind, childhood friends, are living at Frederick's court along with Sir Rowland de Boys' sons, Oliver and Orlando. Following a quarrel between Oliver and Orlando, Orlando, who has fallen in love with Rosalind, has to flee for his life. Rosalind is also banished by Duke Frederick, Celia follows her, and all join Duke Senior in the Forest Arden. It is in the Forest that the main business of Rosie Kerslake as Rosalind, Andrew Whiffin as Jaques de Bols, Peter Wight as Oliver, and Sophie Cox as Celia are members of the Oxford the play, flirtations and mocking Cambridge Shakespeare Company that will present "As You Like It" in the Campus Center Auditorium at 2:30 on January 14.
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