reflected in As You Like It.
             We can assert that the pastoral genre appeared in literature throughout the centuries. Virgil employed the pastoral in his Eclogues, depicting himself and his friends living a simple, rural life. Virgil introduces Arcadia, the symbolic location of any pastoral, idyllic, bucolic paradise inhabited by peaceful shepherds living a simple, happy life. This is also the case with Longus in his Daphnis and Chloe. The pastoral was not popular in medieval England, but it went on to flourish during the Renaissance, with Petrarch, Cervantes, and in particular Sidney's Arcadia, which is arguably the best known pastoral romance. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that Shakespeare used this as a minor source for Pericles. Indeed, it is important to note that Shakespeare's knowledge of pastoral conventions was drawn both from his humanist education (which incl
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