Important characters of "As You Like It"

 

As You Like It

William Shakespeare   

 1.  Who is Rosalind? 

 Ans.  Rosalind is the heroine of As You Like It and the daughter of Duke Senior.   

2.  Who is Amiens? 

 Ans.  Amiens is a lord attending on Duke Senior in the Forest of Arden. 

 3.  Who is Duke Frederick? 

 Ans.  Duke Frederick is the younger brother of Duke Senior.  He usurped the position of his elder brother and banished him.    

4.  Who is Celia?  

Ans.  Celia is the daughter of Duke Frederick and cousin of Rosalind.  

 5.  Who is Le Beau?  

Ans.  Le Beau is a courtier attending on Duke Frederick.  He represents the man-about-town.   

 6.  Who is Touchstone?  

Ans.  Touchstone is a court fool and a clown.  He often speaks the truth in the play. 

7.  Who is Jaques de Boys?  

Ans.  Jaques de Boys is a younger brother of Oliver. Oliver favours  him more than Orlando.  

8.  Who is Orlando?  

Ans.  Orlando is a younger brother of Oliver and the hero of the play As You Like It.  

9.  Who is Oliver?

  Ans.  Oliver is the eldest son of Sir Rowland de Boys and brother of Orlando.  

10.  Who is Charles? 

 Ans.  Charles is a professional wrestler whom Oliver tells to kill - or at least, maim - his brother Orlando.    

11. Who is Duke Senior?

 Ans. Duke Senior is the elder brother of Duke Frederick and the father of Rosalind. 

  

 12.  Who is Duke Frederick? 

 Ans.  Duke Frederick is the youn He usurped the positi  

13.  Who is Sir Oliver Martext?  

Ans.  Sir Oliver Martext is a country clergyman.  He almost joins Touchstone and Audrey in wedlock, but Touchstone is dissuaded at the last moment by Jaques. 

14.  Who is Corin?  

Ans.  Corin is an old shepherd.  He serves as a contrast to the pastoral lovers, Silvius and Phebe. 

 15.  Who is Silvius?

  Ans.  Silvius is a young shepherd.  He is in love with Phebe but she does not respond to his love for her.  At the end of the play he becomes able to marry her.  

16.  Who is Phebe?

  Ans.  Phebe is a shepherdess with whom Silvius is in love.    

17.  Who is William? 

 Ans.  William is a young country boy who is in love with Audrey.

18.  Who is Audrey?  

Ans.  Audrey is the simple country woman, who was in love with William, but later shifted her affection from William to Touchstone.  

19.  Who is Adam?

  Ans.  Adam is a former servant of Sir Rowland.  He is dismissed by the nasty Oliver, but Orlando takes him along into the Forest of Arden when he flees.

20.Who was jane Smile? 

Ans: Jane Smile was the girl with whom Touchstone was in love.

21.  Who was Troilus? 

 Ans.  Troilus was a Trojan prince who fell in love with Cressida who proved unfaithful to him.  He was killed in the battle by Achilles.  

22.  Who was Leander?

  Ans.  Leander was a Greek hero who swam every night across the Hellespont to meet his beloved Hero.