What an appropriate theme! With yesterday being Valentine's day, I can think of nothing better to focus on other than the ridiculous amount of love occurring in this play. Now before I get criticized for taking away from the emotion in the play, let me explain. I understand that there has to be at least one complicated love story in every Shakespearean play. In this case, the main love story was between Orlando and Rosalind. That was expected. However, what was not expected was every single character present falling in love with someone else. Phoebe fell in love with Ganymede, Celia fell in love with Oliver (who, I might add, began as an evil man), Silvius loves Phoebe, and William is in love with Audrey, who becomes the mistress of Touchstone. What is this nonsense? The love plot becomes so intricate and complicated that it was difficult to remember all of that. Is there such a thing as too much love? I feel as though old Will overextended his theme in this play. Yet it will forever be remembered as one of his greatest comedies of all time.
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