- Oliver and Orlando are brothers (older and younger respectively)
o Sibling feud but make it way worse
o Oliver doesn’t help Orlando get any education or training
- Charles is a wrestler; Orlando challenges Charles
o Charles is like “shoot. Oliver? Hello? What do I do?”
o Oliver is like “Orlando sucks, I hate my brother, just beat him up.”
o Charles says “okay bet”
o Oliver is like “slay”
- Duke Senior and Duke Frederick are another pair of brothers whose daughters are besties
o Senior's daughter = Rosalind
o Frederick's daughter = Celia
- Duke Frederick overthrew Duke Senior, so Duke Senior lives in the forest now
o Their daughters are besties though so the girls both stay in the kingdom
- Orlando actually beats Charles in their wrestling match which is wild
o Rosalind falls in love with him and tells only Celia (because that is what besties are for)
- Oliver is over it and wants to kill his brother Orlando
- Orlando’s right-hand Adam gives him a heads up so Orlando does what all sensible men do and run into the forest where he writes poems on trees
- Duke Frederick is also like “nah get this niece of mine outta here” and banishes Rosalind, so she does what all sensible women do and goes to the forest
o Celia is like "that's my bestie, I am going too!"
- Rosalind and Celia disguise themselves as men
o Rosalind= Ganymede
o Celia= Aliena
- Duke Frederick is like “I know I threw my daughter’s best friend and my only niece out of the castle but I am so angry my daughter is gone too, why would she do that?!”
o Then he realizes Orlando is gone too, thinks it is too much of a coincidence, and gets Oliver to go find and kill Orlando
o Also wants his brother (Duke Senior) dead so it is very convenient they are both in the forest
- Orlando somehow stumbles upon Duke Senior’s Robin Hood life and demands food
o Duke Senior is surprisingly nice about it
- Rosalind and Celia buy a cottage in the woods for some reason
o They also meet a shepherd named Silvius who wants a woman named Phoebe and tbh I don’t really get their relevance
- Orlando runs into them because I guess this is a small forest
o He thinks Rosalind is a man and confides that he is lovesick
o Rosalind is like “ah lovesickness is an illness and I can cure it”
o Orlando agrees to following her advice
o Rosalind says to pretend she is Rosalind and to come woo her every day
- Silvius the shepherd man is still getting rejected by Phoebe, who then falls in love with the man-woman Ganymede/Rosalind (lol)
- Orlando doesn’t show up to the love lesson thing and Rosalind panics; Oliver is like "LOL he got bit by a lion"
o Celia is like “who is this hottie delivering this terrible news? I think I’m in love”
o They agree to marry
- Phoebe still wants man-woman Ganymede/Rosalind
- Orlando is tired of pretending Ganymede is Rosalind (even though it’s true, but he doesn't know that)
- Rosalind promises that Ganymede will wed Phoebe if Ganymede will ever marry a woman (which Ganymede won’t because she is not Ganymede)
- Hymen marries the couples:
o Rosalind and Orlando
o Celia and Oliver
o Phoebe and Silvius
o (These other randoms named Audrey and Touchstone)
- Duke Frederick has some sort of religious awakening and stops trying to kill his brother and even gives him back the throne