A real charmer - sweet and enchanting, with surprisingly strong female roles. It's not up in the Midsummer Night's Dream class but it's a lot of fun and very winning, much better than say Love's Labor Lost. It isn't plot heavy but it's very lovely, helped considerably by being set in a forest. Rosalind and Celia are a great buddy duo - funny, smart, a bit neurotic, brave, loyal to each other.
There's a lot of falling in love at first sight, not much conflict, heaps and heaps of songs (it reads like the book to a musical at times), witty comments on the battle of the sexes. It reads as though Shakespeare wanted to have fun with this one and he did and we do.
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