History YMMV / AsYouLikeIt

** "Hour by hour we ripe and ripe, hour by hour we rot and rot." This actually made sense in Elizabethan English--it wound up sounding like "whore ('ore) by whore we rape and rape, whore by whore we rot and rot," but the changes in word pronunciations has made it into just a weird bit of doggrel.

* {{Moe}}: Rosalind is arguably the most lovable character in all of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]].

** And more Les Yay with Rosalind and Phoebe. Phoebe falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Rosalind dressed as a man when Silvius is trying to get her to marry him.

* {{Moe}}: Rosalind is arguably the most lovable character in all of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Some productions have genderswapped Jaques. The resulting lines come off as intensely Tsundere toward everyone.

* {{Tsundere}}: Some productions have genderswapped Jaques. The resulting lines come off as intensely Tsundere toward everyone.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's not altogether clear whether the Forest of Arden is, or rather, whether it's meant to be the one in Warwickshire close to Shakespeare's birthplace, or the Ardennes in France, where the story ''Rosalynde'' which inspired the play was set. And neither of them have [[MisplacedWildlife lions]].
** The line where Oliver describes his brother Orlando as "the stubbornest young fellow of France" would seem to indicate the latter, but considering their French-sounding family name, this could simply be a reference to their own country of origin and the very French Le Beau is treated like a funny foreigner.

** Orlando courts Rosalind ''while he thinks she's a man''. Even in the productions that don't play this as him falling for "Ganymede,"[[note]]That name, by the by, originally belonged to Zeus' male lover in Myth/GreekMythology and thus was used to denote an object of male homosexual affection in Renaissance England[[/note]] the implications are pretty overt.

** Also a Les Yay: Rosalind and Celia.

** The line where Oliver describes his brother Orlando as "the stubbornest young fellow of France" would seem to indicate the latter, but considering their French-sounding family name, this could simply be a reference to their own country of origin.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's not altogether clear whether the Forest of Arden is, or rather, whether it's meant to be the one in Warwickshire close to Shakespeare's birthplace, or the Ardennes in France, where the story ''Rosalynde'' which inspired the play was set. And neither of them have [[MisplacedWildlife lions]].

* LessDisturbingInContext: The "seven ages of man" speech is less disturbing when one realizes who is saying it and why.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's not altogether clear whether the Forest of Arden is, or rather, whether it's meant to be the one in Warwickshire close to Shakespeare's birthplace, or the Ardennes in France, where the story ''Rosalynde'' which inspired the play was set.

** Orlando courts Rosalind ''while he thinks she's a man''. Even in the productions that don't play this as him falling for "Ganymede,"[[note]]That name, by the by, originally belonged to Zeus' male lover in GreekMythology and thus was used to denote an object of male homosexual affection in Renaissance England[[/note]] the implications are pretty overt.

** And more LesYay with Rosalind and Phoebe. Phoebe falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Rosalind dressed as a man when Silvius is trying to get her to marry him.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's not altogether clear whether the Forest of Arden is, or rather, whether it's meant to be the one in Warwickshire close to Shakespeare's birthplace, or the Ardennes in France, where the poem ''Rosalynde'' which inspired the play was set.

* {{Tsundere}}: Some productions have genderswapped Jaques. The resulting lines come off as intensely Tsundere toward everyone.

* {{Moe}}: Rosalind is arguably the most lovable character of all of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]].

* LessDisturbingInContext: The "seven ages of man" speech is less disturbing when one realizes who is saying it and why.

** And more LesYay with Rosalind and Phoebe. Phoebe falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Rosalind dressed as a man when the Silvius is trying to get her to marry him.

* HoYay: Orlando courts Rosalind ''while he thinks she's a man''. Even in the productions that don't play this as him falling for "Ganymede,"[[note]]That name, by the by, originally belonged to Zeus' male lover in GreekMythology and thus was used to denote an object of male homosexual affection in Renaissance England[[/note]] the implications are pretty overt.

*** And more LesYay with Rosalind and Phoebe. Phoebe falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Rosalind dressed as a man when the Silvius is trying to get her to marry him.
* LessDisturbingInContext: The "seven ages of man" speech is less disturbing when one realizes who is saying it and why.
** Depends on the production.

* HoYay: Orlando courts Rosalind ''while he thinks she's a man''. Even in the productions that don't play this as him falling for "Ganymede,"[[hottip:*:That name, by the by, originally belonged to Zeus' male lover in GreekMythology and thus was used to denote an object of male homosexual affection in Renaissance England]] the implications are pretty overt.

*** And more LesYay with Rosalind and Phoebe. Phoebe falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Rosalind dressed as a man when the out of her league Silvius is trying to get her to marry him.
* LessDisturbingInContext: The "seven ages of man" speech is less disturbing when one realizes who is saying it and why.