Disguises and a place which is out of the city in As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice.

In Shakespeare play’s disguise and a specific place that is stand on out of the city is very common. For example in As You Like It is a play of a pastoral seating. In most of the significant scenes occur in a Forest that called forest of Ardenne. Disguise also present in As You Like It. In each of these plays, the women disguised as men eventually reveal their true female identities all of this could have been quite confusing to playgoers in Shakespeare's day, for only men played women's roles. Thus, in the above-mentioned plays, men played women disguised as men who at some point doffed their male identities to reveal themselves as females. Rosalind, who disguises herself as the boy Ganymede and Celia has disguised her real identity as a princess by smearing her face with brown paint. Celia has given herself the name of Aliena. On the other hand In The Merchant of Venice, the place of Belmont is a city, where lives Portia. It is a city stands on out of the Vanice. In this play, Portia disguises herself as a male judge to save the friend of her lover in a court of law.

Now come to the point on As You Like It, the forest of Ardenne is a significant place where lives Duke Senior as a banish Duke. Hence, the Forest of Ardenne provides for the exiled courtiers an important freedom to experiment with their lives, to discover things about themselves. In the Forest people can talk openly with whomever they might happen to meet on a stroll through the trees, and that might be anyone. In the Forest life is, as I have observed, lived more immediately in the moment with whatever life presents at the moment. Such an approach to life is impossible in the politically charged world of the court. In the Forest of Adrienne, life is very different. There is no urgency to the agenda. There are no clocks in the forest, and for the exiled courtiers there is no regular work. They are free to roam around the forest, prompted by their own desires. There is plenty of food to eat, so the communal hunt takes care of their physical needs. That and the absence of a complex political hierarchy creates a much stronger sense of communal equality hearkening back the mythical good old days. The exile Duke himself attests to the advantages of living far from the court, free of the deceits of flattery and double dealing and welcomes Orlando to the feast without suspicion.

On the other hand in The Merchant of Venice Balmont is a city which is stood on out of the Venice where Portia live. It is opposite picture of the Forest of Ardenne. It is opposite because the Forest of Ardenne is a woodland that is very cool and natural. There have no political cause. Everyone is free as a God creature. But in Balmont we see Portia is forced by his father that means she is not free like Ardenne people. One thing is very common for both places that are love relation. In As You Like It Rosalind and Celia went to Forest of Ardenne because of love. As well as Bassiano also went to Belmont for loving relation with Portia and in Belmont, where they find Lorenzo and Jessica declaring their love to each other under the moonlight.

Shakespeare disguises women as men to further a plot in As You Like It. Rosalind, who disguises herself as the boy Ganymede, raises many interesting debates on homosexuality, gender blending, androgyny, and sexual identity. With the rising influence of feminist studies and the application of new historicism, scholars have applied a previously unexplored set of questions to the play. Chief among them is the nature of gender relations, the role of eroticism, and the degree to which patriarchal ideals are maintained in the play. Rosalind, in As You Like It, dons the garb of a man to become a shepherd as she seeks out her love, Orlando. In the first excerpt, Shakespeare's use of sexual disguise in As You Like It, arguing that this device is developed in distinct stages. In the second excerpt, is several instances where the characters in Arden either take part in or discuss role-playing sessions, proposing that the forest in a sense becomes the stage for these brief "playlets," and that Shakespeare composed variations of this theme to explore the circumstances surrounding the way in which the play's four couples fall in love.

In The Merchant of Venice one of the most admirable leading women in Shakespeare’s plays is Portia, the wealthy heiress in The Merchant of Venice. She is intelligent, self-assured, enterprising bold. Her reason controls her emotions. She is the ideal woman–a woman ahead of her times. In The Merchant of Venice, Portia disguises herself as a male judge to save the friend of her lover in a court of law. She disguises herself as a man, then assumes the role of a judge whereby she saves the life of Bassanio's friend, Antonio, in court. She disguises herself as Balthasar, a young doctor of law. In the court scenes, Portia finds a technicality in the bond, thereby outwitting Shylock and saving Antonio's life when everyone else fails. We see in both plays disguise is common but the different ways. Rosalind is disguise for love. On the other hand Portia is disguise for saving the friend of her lover. Another thing is impotant that Rosalind and Ceila does every thing with emotion but Portia does anything with reason.

Lastly we can sey, in Shakespeare’s play Disguise and a particular plase which is far away from the city is very common. In As You Like It Shakespeare represents a forest named The Forest of Ardenne as a coll, natural eliment. Rosalind, who disguises herself as the boy Ganymede and Celia, has disguised her real identity as a princess by smearing her face with brown paint. Celia has given herself the name of Aliena. On the other hand in The Marchant of Venice we see a city named Balmont, where live Portia. It is opposite of woodland. In this play, Portia disguises herself as a male judge to save the friend of her lover in a court of law. Rosalind and Celia Disguised in As You Like It. Portia also disguised in The Merchant of Venice but in different way.