As You Like It: The Many Flavors of Love As You Like It is notable among Shakespeare's works for ending with four marriages, a record of sorts even among comedies. Love is a central theme of the opera, although in some of its variations it cannot be said to be romantic! The love affairs may, at first glance, seem typical: Rosalind and Orlando represent romantic love between hero and heroine, Silvius and Phebe combine lower-class love with unrequited love, Audrey and Touchstone a darker attempt at seduction, and Celia and Oliver simply ties up loose ends. However, Shakespeare makes the theme interesting not only through the huge variety of relationships he explores, but also through the unusual elements he brings to each. The Rosalind-Orlando relationship could be a standard love between hero and heroine, but for the interest that Shakespeare adds way of Rosalind's bright character and the humor of Orlando who meets and is attracted to Rosalind in her guise of "sassy lackey" , Ganymede. The way they meet and fall in love is traditional: Rosalind is won over by Orlando's manly exertions and his good looks during his wrestling match with Charles, and performs her office of feminine mercy by trying to dissuade him from what seems be such. a disastrous undertaking. It is true love at first sight, another traditional feature of such a love story. However, a new dimension is added by Rosalind's disguise as Ganymede and her suggestion that Orlando pretend to court her. Orlando's attraction to her in her boyish appearance is unexpected and makes the audience burst into laughter. Her gradual progression from a curt response to Ganymede's cheeky question: "Please, what's wrong... middle of paper... guts. The audience will also be highly amused that although Celia has teased Rosalind since when she fell in love with Orlando, she herself is not evidence of a sudden and irrational love. All in all, their marriage is necessary for the comic resolution of the play and in the humor that Shakespeare infused into each of them, enhancing the happy nature of the play. Various love situations are explored: true love at first sight, unrequited love, even a hint of homosexuality in Orlando's attraction to. Ganymede and in Phebe's falling in love with Ganymede, who is actually a woman. Their contrasting variety makes them complement each other in the theme of love and the silly things it makes people do, making As You Like It both fun and romantic...