Orlando’s beard and love cures in As you like it

Sullivan, Ceri ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1698-7404 2023. Orlando’s beard and love cures in As you like it. Notes & Queries 70 (1) , pp. 15-16. 10.1093/notesj/gjad001

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Abstract

In a contra-blazon, Rosalind disputes Orlando’s claim to be a lover: ‘A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye and sunken, which you have not; an unquestionable spirit, which you have not; a beard neglected, which you have not—but I pardon you for that, for simply your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue’ (As You Like It, III.ii.356–60). Her comment about his lack of beard sticks out, as it is not normally listed as one of the physical symptoms of obsessive love, which are principally about the figure (lean), the demeanour (drooping), the countenance (pale), and the eyes (blue-circled).

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0029-3970
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 January 2023
Date of Acceptance:	20 December 2022
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2024 16:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/155577

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