As You Like It

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Sample As You Like It is a delightful comedy, but it is not just a comedy. None of Shakespeare's comedies are simply comedies. There is always much gravitas within the levitas, much that is serious within that which is merely fun or funny. At the heart of the play are the hearts of the lovers, Rosalind and Orlando, and at its rhetorical heart is the meaning of love itself. What is love? Is it as blind as Cupid? Or is it the laying down of one's life for another, even if the other is thine own worst enemy?