Which play by Shakespeare is set in the forest of Arden?
Answer
As You Like It
Which play by Shakespeare is set in the forest of Arden? The play is As You Like It.
This pastoral comedy follows Rosalind after she is banished from court by her uncle, Duke Frederick. She escapes with her cousin Celia and reaches the Forest of Arden, where Rosalind disguises herself as a young man named Ganymede. Orlando, who has also fled danger, enters the forest and hangs love poems to Rosalind on its trees.
The forest becomes a place outside ordinary court rules, allowing characters to test ideas about identity, love, social rank, and political authority. Its inhabitants include the exiled Duke Senior, the melancholy Jaques, the clown Touchstone, and several pairs of lovers. Jaques delivers the famous “All the world's a stage” speech there.
The name Arden may evoke both the Ardennes forest in continental Europe and the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare's native Warwickshire. The play was probably written around 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The other choices are set in different imaginative or geographical worlds, making As You Like It the canonical answer.