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As You Like It is a pastoral comedy, that is, a comedy extolling the benefits of country life, especially sheep herding. Such themes were common in the plays, poems (think Marlowe's A Passionate Shepherd to his Love) and song lyrics (think Morley's Now is the Month of Maying) of the Elizabethan Era. It is also, although not a musical in the sense we would normally think of it, a play with a lot of music in it. Shakespeare had to write the lyrics for a bunch of new songs which would appear in the play.

Under the Greenwood Tree is a nice pastoral lyric, perfect for this play.

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It's not so much a poem as a song lyric. The song "Under the Greenwood Tree" is one of a number of excellent songs from the play As You Like It.

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1. It's a song.

2. Amiens sings it in As You Like It

3. It celebrates the pastoral life--living the simple life in the country.

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