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Act 2 scene 1: Passage Question on Duke Senior's opening speech Discuss Duke Senior's view of the forest in this extract. In your answer you should: * Comment on Shakespeare's use of language, imagery, tone and dramatic structure * Show awareness of how different readers and audiences might respond to the extract * Show awareness of the Elizabethan context Shakespeare opens Act two with a speech from Duke Senior attesting the values of life in the Forest of Arden. His 18 line judication provides the audience with an objective and tempered account of life in the rural surrounds which although holds elements of the romantic pastoral vision of the rural life as Eden, is at the same time in touch with reality. The pastoral theme was a popular genre in Elizabethan drama, with its suggestion that life in the rural environment was the remedy to all the woes and stresses which accompanied life in the...

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