This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest
poetry, contrasts a country's world of envy and rivalry with a forest's
world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest of Arden, the banished
young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an
extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent
traveler, her own banished father, and the banished young man she loves.
Romantic happiness triumphs, even as we laugh at the excesses of love,
at the ways of court and countryside, indeed, at everything, in this
masterpiece of comic writing,