Overview
Character Name
Silvius
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
France, The Forest of Arden
Analysis
A young lovelorn shepherd, Silvius pines after the cruel and contemptuous shepherdess Phoebe. Like Orlando early in the play (before Ganymede schools him), Silvius is a perfect example of a “Petrarchan lover,” named so for the poet Petrarch who obsessively penned love
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