"Celia is a bright copper-colored negress, fine figure and very smart.

Celia and Rosalind, the latter disguised as a youth, are courtly characters; Phebe and Silvius represent the polished Arcadians of pastoral tradition; while Audrey and William combine the character of farcical rustics with the inimitable humanity which distinguishes Shakespeare's creations.

Not unfrequently Streph'on is the wooer when Celia is the wooed.