As You Like It story
"As You Like I"t is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. "As You Like It" follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden.
13 total · 2 choice · 5 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| romantic love | choice | the main point of the story was to poke fun at human courtship and feelings of love and lust |
| the battle of the sexes | choice | the story was concerned with women trying to get good matches while also guarding their virtue from various wooing men, and related issues |
| friendship | major | Rosalinda and Celia were fast friends to the extent that Celia choose to follow Rosalinda into exile |
| gender bending | major | the cross-dressing and mixed up romantic affections were notable as Orlando seemed attracted to Ganymede |
| infatuation | major | Rosalinda and Orlando became besotted with each other |
| love at first sight | major | Rosalinda and Orlando became infatuation at their first encounter, as did Celia, Oliver, Phebe and Ganymede |
| love triangle | major | Silvius, Phebe, Ganymede/Rosalinda, Orlando, Audrey, Touchstone, William |
| childhood as an outsider | minor | Rosalinda had grown up as a stranger in her father's enemy's house |
| facing being evicted from one's home | minor | Rosalinda was capriciously exiled from the house in which she grew up |
| male lasciviousness | minor | Jaques plotted a fake marriage in order to bed Audrey |