The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0568  Friday, 31 August 2007

From: 		Virginia Byrne <
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Date: 		Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 12:22:04 EDT
Subject: 	Jaques

I saw a rather lovely, streamlined, bare bones production of "As You 
Like It' last evening here on Cape Cod by a group from New Hampshire 
called 'Shakespeare in the Valley". It sent me to the script today to 
revisit it. Here's the question I pose. In the opening monologue, 
Orlando refers to his brother JAQUES who Oliver "keeps at school". . . 
just a coincidence that a JAQUES is with Duke Senior in the forest? Did 
Shakespeare simply run out of names? (he seems to certainly favor the 
name "Rosalind" in his writings).

Virginia Byrne

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