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  • “Doth my simple feature content you?”
    As You Like It
    / Conflict at court

    …denied by his older brother Oliver the education and upbringing that should have been Orlando’s right as a gentleman. To escape Oliver’s murderous hatred, Orlando flees to the Forest of Arden with his faithful old servant Adam. Soon Rosalind is banished, too, merely for being the daughter of the out-of-favor…

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    …denied by his older brother Oliver the education and upbringing that should have been Orlando’s right as a gentleman. To escape Oliver’s murderous hatred, Orlando flees to the Forest of Arden with his faithful old servant Adam. Soon Rosalind is banished, too, merely for being the daughter of the out-of-favor…

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