For the plot of As You Like It Shakespeare himself had only to go to the local theatre Thomas Lodges prose romance Rosalynde was popular in the Elizabethan theatres beginning in 1590 and was a wonderful tale full of bloody wrestling matches and swashbuckling rescues of nasty outlaws and the violent deaths of wicked villains In contrast when Shakespeares version opened in 1599 he had turned Lodges strong masculine story into a fairy tale Yet Shakespeares comic version touches us more deeply beca
What do you find interesting about Shakespeares representation of different types of love in As you like it William Shakespeare paints the trials and tribulations of Rosalind and Orlando on the brooding canvas of the court and a jovial one of the country Rosalind and Orlando two ardent lovers segregated in the realms of the comedy which is characterised by mistaken identities deceptions and transformations There is a wide spectrum of the representations of love in As you like it the portrayal o