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Jaques (As You Like It)
Character in As You Like It
Fictional character
Jaques (variously and ) is one of the main characters in Shakespeare's As You Like It. "The melancholy Jaques", as he is known, is one of the exiled Duke Senior's noblemen who live with him in the Forest of Arden. Jaques takes no part in the unfolding of the plot, and confines himself to wry comment on the action and exchanges with his fellow characters. He has one of Shakespeare's best-known speeches, "All the world's a stage".
Role
Shakespeare took much of the plot and most of the principal characters of As You Like It from Thomas Lodge's pastoral romance Rosalynd, published in 1590. He added nine new characters, chief among whom are the jester Touchstone and Jaques.[1] The former is cheerful and optimistic; the latter introverted and pessimistic.[2][n 1] Dame Helen Gardner has described Touchstone as the parodist who must love what he parodies, and Jaques Biography of arthur conan doyle.