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The play is set in the court that Duke Frederick has usurped from his brother (Rosalind's father) and in the Forest of Ardenne, where Rosalind has been hiding after being banished by her uncle, Duke Frederick. In her male disguise she forms a teasing friendship with Orlando, who is in the forest hiding from his brother Oliver, who is plotting against him. Wit and romance play out against these disputes of a divided pair of brothers, fighting over inheritance of title and money.
Filled with romance, wit, disguises, plot twists, brilliant conversations, family treating family badly including dukes trying to throw one another off their throne, you will come away understanding the richness of life's experiences and the many different forms that love might take,
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