IDENTITY
As You Like It
Literature
Work Summary
A comedy in which Rosalind flees court and, disguised as the young man Ganymede, enters the Forest of Arden. Through multiple courtships, mistaken identities and encounters between court and country, the play explores love, gender performance, exile and self-discovery.
Evidence Summary
Shakespearean wording is reused directly in correspondence.
Direct textual allusion.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
William Shakespeare
Work
As You Like It
Years / Period
10–11 Nov 1881
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
10–11 Nov 1881 — Letter 182, note 10
Quoted / Copied · Quoted / alluded to
The editors identify Van Gogh's wording with a line from As You Like It.
Response: Shakespearean wording is reused directly in correspondence.
Connection: Direct textual allusion.
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