@article{oai:ompu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000518, author = {田邊, 久美子 and TANABE, Kumiko}, journal = {大阪医科薬科大学 薬学部雑誌, Bulletin of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University}, month = {Mar}, note = {This paper discusses the elements of“fancy”, that is, disguise, sight (especially, love at first sight) and figures of speech in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It (1599), revolving around the role of the heroine Rosalind disguised as a man who is the representation of fancy in the play. Fancy reverses and unites opposites, and is relevant to inspiration, love, figures in rhetoric, objects, beauty in appearance and otherness. Fancy indicates the passivity of the subject which obeys the object or the other in passion. In other words, love at first sight or fancy in the subject is aroused by looking at the beauty of the object’s appearance (or external beauty). Rosalind makes use of fancy and manipulates Orlando with sight and rhetoric to give him lessons in fancy or love. Similarly, Touchstone as the fool makes use of fancy and reverses and unites opposites, leading to the unity between fancy and true love at the end of the play. Although this paper was originally an extended version on a part of Chapter 1 and 2 of my book Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Poetics of Fancy (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) as well as on the paper read in my presentation at a seminar of the Shakespeare Society of Japan, held at Konan University on the 2nd October, 2022, it has become much more extensive than before, because I gained new insights and perspective later about the way in which Rosalind disguised as Ganymede and a magician is concerned with alchemy (magic), Diana (Artemis) and Queen Elizabeth I, and I have come to realize that they are the most significant elements of fancy in this play. This paper also discusses variations of fancy with the elements of metamorphosis, Nature, beauty, cheerfulness, the future, the other and abrupt parallelism, and especially marriage seen in the last stage of the experiment of alchemy as the representation of the unity of opposites, which Rosalind as magician or alchemist organizes with Hymen as the god of marriage at the end of As You Like It.}, pages = {57--95}, title = {『お気に召すまま』におけるfancy}, volume = {2}, year = {2023}, yomi = {タナベ, クミコ} }