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ent and close to nature. There were many things written by the romantics about the American Indian. They romanticized the American Indian into a noble savage who was close to nature. Their attitudes were quite different from Puritans who emphasized that the Indians were wild, degenerate barbarians. They compared them to Satan. The romantics would look at the Indians as close to nature and therefore close in touch with God. The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. Personified nature plays an important role in the pages of their works. (7). Romantics were attracted by the wild, irregular, indefinite, remote, mysterious, and the strange. Romanticism has a deep influence on the contemporary time. Today, many people still have been researching on it. By reading As You Like It, one can have a feeling that the rebirth of romanticism. As you like it is a comedy written by Shakespeare, who was a popular playwright writing for the commercial theater in London in the 16th century. Shakespeare was not college-educated, and although his company had the sponsorship of King James, his work was not entirely "respectable.” He has written many plays, including comedies, tragedies and some sonnets. His work had great influence through ages over the world. To the Romantics, however, Shakespeare’s plays are the essence of folk poetry, the ultimate vindication of their faith in spontaneous creativity. Many European dramas in 19th century were influenced by him. Painters illustrated scenes from his plays, and composers based orchestral tone poems and operas on his narratives. As You Like It was one of the most famous comedies of Shakespeare’s. From the setting of the whole story one can find that the forest life is full of truth, kindness, beauty and love, which was the life that the 19th romantics were expecting to. II. Shakespeare’s As You Like It A. Background In 1598，Shakespeare wrote As You Like It. And it becomes one of his four famous comedies. The play tells a tale happening in the Forest of Arden which is near the hometown Strafford –upon –Avon. When he was a child, he went to play in that place, and had a good memory about that period. He was attracted by the peace and beautiful views and expected to live there. In 16th there was a movement happening in Europe where humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in Medieval Age, to introduce new ideas, and they also voiced that man did not only have ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders, Shakespeare was influenced by this sense, later these beliefs were expressed in the play As You Like It. B. Summary As the play opens, Duck Fredrick has usurped the title and throne of his elder brother, Duck Senior. The elder Duke and his loyal followers have taken up residence in the Forest of Arden. The banish duke’s daughter named Rosalind, when Frederick drove out her father, still kept in his court as a companion for his own daughter Celia. A close friendship had grown up between these ladies, which the quarrels of their fathers did not break. Celia tried by every kindness in her power to repay Rosalind for the injustice. Orlando and Oliver are two brothers divided by enmity, Orlando has long been mistreated by his brother and when Orlando enters a wrestling match sponsored by Duke Frederick, he attracts the attention of Rosalind. Likewise, Duke Frederick’s daughter and Rosalind to Arden like her father; Ce