As You Like It · Chapter
Scene III explained
Touchstone and Audrey prepare for their wedding the next day.
What happens
Touchstone and Audrey prepare for their wedding the next day. Two pages sing a springtime love song, but Touchstone dismisses it as foolish.
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Narrative arc
Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Falling action.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This is the dramatic climax because Rosalind, who has been orchestrating the pastoral love games from a positi…
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Follow the arc while readingThemes in this chapter
- Love and Marriage
Touchstone and Audrey's impending wedding and the pages' song celebrate love and marriage in the springtime.
Characters to notice
- Touchstone
Anticipates his marriage to Audrey and criticizes the pages' song.
- Audrey
Expresses her desire to marry Touchstone.
Key passages
“To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will we be married.”
Tomorrow is our wedding day, Audrey.
Touchstone announces the upcoming marriage.
“It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time”
A lover and his girl walked through the green cornfield in spring, the best time for weddings.
The pages sing a song about lovers in spring.
