As You Like It
One of Shakespeare`s early plays, written in 1598 or 1599, AS YOU LIKE IT is in many ways a typical Elizabethan romantic comedy, but it is also a satire in which Shakespeare ridicules many of the courtly-love conventions that were still current in his day: love as a disease, for example, and the lover as slave to his imperious mistress. In AS YOU LIKE IT, when these notions rear their heads, they are presented as silly absurdities. Orlando is in thrall to Rosalind, the simple shepherd Silvius is put through mental tortures by Phoebe--but ridiculing such formulaic excesses (Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love) and keeping the play grounded in reality, Shakespeare reminds his audience that true love can bring happiness and is a force for good. In Jaques`s famously acerbic soliloquy on the stages of a man`s life (which end in a second childhood followed by oblivion), he speaks of the naturalness and inevitability of change--and as the characters in AS YOU LIKE IT enter the Forest of Arden, they undergo changes that will ultimately lead to a transformation in their attitudes. Embittered men are reunited with the brothers they loathed, the rightful Duke is returned to his throne, and four absurdly warring couples are reconciled. The forest provides--as it does in many plays of the period--a pastoral interval in which the characters come to their senses and return to the city better people. In the course of the play, despite its light-hearted tone, Shakespeare does tackle some difficult questions involving love, aging, nature, and the coming of death.
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Based on a novel by James Patterson, this made-for-television movie stars Robert Urich as Mitch McKinley, a successful ad executive with a nice job and great home-life worked out. When at the age of 50, Mitch suddenly loses his job, he takes this twist of fate and runs with it, surprising those around him by devoting his time to golf. With the goal of making it to the PGA Senior Tour, Mitch risks losing his family for the love of the game.
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Keiichi Morisato never expected that his life could completely change after trying to order a pizza. One night, he dials the number to his favorite pizza place, but instead of getting a delicious pie, he ends up getting three goddesses delivered to his door! Keiichi doesn't have any idea what's going on, but he's pleased anyway. But little does he know that his life is never going to be the same again....
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Surprise the wine lover in your life with this two-bottle wine gift box. It contains a superb selection of one red and one white wine from some of the top wine producing vineyards around the world. The wines are presented in an elegant gift box.
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