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"Furthermore, the way through which the potential inspirations of this work have influenced the playwright's formulation of his characters and setting are considered as a means to see how the presented elements are founded on the potential state while at the same time they skillfully go into different directions and gain multiple associations.
In his play, As You Like It, Shakespeare presents a circular trajectory wherein characters inhabit various worlds which clash with each other while being at the same time complementary to one another.
In Arcadia, Philisides who actually represents Sidney himself does not have any part in the action and his melancholic character mirrors the "melancholy and moral Jaques" (p.
134) Although in this play, Shakespeare may have been under the influence of Sidney for the creation of his character Jaques, he was much more indebted to Sir Thomas Lodge's prose tale Rosalynde.
499) Shakespeare also gives a more thorough air of reality to his characters than Lodge whose shepherd Corydon "quotes Latin glibly, writes sonnets in French and thoughtfully philosophizes on the envy of degree and the vicissitudes of fortune!" (p.
Although Shakespeare's borrowed elements and characters are taken from states of potentiality already latent in others' works and characters, he gives them a twist and makes them unique through an aesthetic actuality in his plays.
Thus, Shakespeare gives his personages a state of actuality within a play which itslef deals with the very notion of transitory and mediatory phase of an ideal circle (potential state) concretized as a forest which touches every character and renovates, remodels and reforms them."