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" They say, he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say, many young gentlemen flock to him every day ; and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world. "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 554
1833
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A Necessary Fantasy?: The Heroic Figure in Children's Popular Culture

Dudley Jones, Tony Watkins - 2000 - 556 pages
...Arden, we are told, Duke Senior and his "merry men . . . live like the old Robin Hood of England" and "young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet...time carelessly, as they did in the Golden World" (As You Like It Act 1, 1 105-109). Of course, the term "green" often serves as an eponym for the environmental...
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Renaissance Fantasies: The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction

Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast - 1999 - 238 pages
...God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness. (1.1.32-34) They say many young gendemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world. (1.1.116-19) A DEFENCE OF POETRY As You LIKE IT And if in neither of these anatomies he [poetry] be...
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Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love

Douglas Brode - 2000 - 268 pages
...the forest, and a many merry men with him; there they live like the old Robin Hood of England . . . and fleet the time carelessly, as they did, in the golden world." The play is about man's unending desire to leave the everyday world behind and seek an ideal existence,...
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Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory

Mary Thomas Crane - 2010 - 276 pages
...notes, it is an exiled Duke and "many young gentlemen" who "live like the old Robin Hood of England" and "fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world" (1.1.116-20).54 In this case, the Duke is probably killing deer that would be rightfully his if his...
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Paradigms Found: Feminist, Gay, and New Historicist Readings of Shakespeare

Pilar Hidalgo - 2001 - 168 pages
...already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock...the time carelessly as they did in the golden world (llll4,l9). But the search for one,to,one correspondences in Arden to members of Robin Hood's band...
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Literary History - Cultural History: Force Fields and Tensions

Herbert Grabes - 2001 - 410 pages
...already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock...the time carelessly as they did in the golden world. (Iil 14-19) The golden world of Robin Hood and his merry men offers a happy fantasy of equality, justice...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...already in the Forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock...the time carelessly as they did in the golden world. (Ii 120-25) Rosalind and Celia appear, just emerging from the innocence of childhood, another pastoral...
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Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames

Brian Richardson - 2002 - 416 pages
...You Like It Charles the wrestler says of Duke Senior's followers: "There they live like the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young gentlemen flock...time carelessly, as they did in the golden world." In the histories, therefore, the comic Saturnalia is a temporary reversal of normal standards, comic...
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As You Like it

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 162 pages
...tells Oliver that the outlawed Duke Senior and his loyal supporters have gone into the Forest of Arden, and fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world. (i, i, 108-9) The Golden Age (or 'world') was created by Greek and Latin poets. They claimed that it...
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Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology: The Age of Chivalry

Thomas Bulfinch - 2004 - 306 pages
...of Arden, and a many merry men wita him ; and there they live like the old Rohin Hood of England ... and fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world." — As You LIKE IT. As has heen already said, some of the hallad makers have so far erred from the...
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