As You Like It Summary & Analysis
William Shakespeare's as you like it was first performed in 1603 it is one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies it tells the story of the amusing courtship and eventual marriage of Rosalind the daughter of the Duke and Orlando the son of a knight. Although the play is a comedy Shakespeare explores many serious philosophical themes such as those of love and pastoral life in regards to love the play emphatically asserts that love Springs from physical attraction which is often established at first sight the two main couples of the play Rosalind and Orlando and Celia and Oliver fall in love at first sight and one character muses who ever loved that loved not at first sight a man cannot help being attracted to a particular person he either is or is not attracted to her a man's sexual preference depends upon his genetics and the cultural milieu in which he was raised love then is like a madness or disease that is pass...