As You Like It is one of the best romantic comedies of Shakespeare. In a romantic comedy, romantic and comic elements are mingled. The romantic elements delight and thrill, the comic elements make us laugh and forget our anxieties. Emotions, imaginations and fancy are common phenomenon of romantic comedy. As You Like It keeps us laughing most of the time, despite some saddling incidents in it. The laughter is aroused in us by Rosalind, Celia, by Touchstone, by Jaques. There are some criteria of romantic comedy. They are first sight love, influence of nature, supernatural elements, role of forest, the romantic setting, happy ending and so on. In As You Like It , we see the first sight love between Rosalind and Orlando. The central theme of this play is love and marriage. This is the youthful love of Rosalind and Orlando. In romantic play nature plays a vital role. Nature dominates the human life. In As You Like It , we see the forest of Arden. Gradually al the charac...
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