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- Article compiled by: Will Tosh
- Themes: Shakespeare’s world and life, Gender, sex, courtship and wedding
- Posted: 15 Mar 2016
Simply buddies?
For Shakespeare, the phrase ‘friend’ expressed a range that is wide of. He understood relationship like it, Rosalind defends herself from the charge of inherited treason by claiming ‘if we did derive it from our friends, / What’s that to me as we do today, to mean affectionate companionship, but just as frequently he used ‘friends’ when he meant ‘family’: in As you?