As You Like It (1982 TV) part 8 of 16

Shakespeare's fanciful play, filmed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival before a live audience.

Lewis Gordon ... Touchstone
Deryck Hazel ... Shepherd
Roberta Maxwell ... Rosalind
Rosemary Dunsmore ... Celia

directed by John Hirsch

ON TOUCHSTONE:

Touchstone's role is that of the Court Jester, the "all-licensed fool." It is as such that he first appears at Duke Frederick's court, using the Fool's license to mock at the Knight who swore by his honor that the pancakes were good, and indulging himself at the same time with a side thrust at the Duke, who loves this honorless Knight. He is threatened, to be sure, with a whipping, the customary penalty for the Fool who overstepped his bounds- cf. Lear's warning to his Jester- but he is clever enough to sidestep the danger at Court, and once he is in Arden all danger blows away in the forest air. Here he is free to practice, unchecked, his vocation, the exposure of folly. That, presumably, is the significance of his name; he is the touchstone that distinguishes pure from base metal.

-- Thomas Parrot, Shakespearean Comedy, 1949

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• Forest-of-Arden

[kawaiiraven574]

Oh i love the fool !! "I would rather bear with you then bear you" LOL