As You Like It love with Rosalind, is forced to flee his home after being persecuted by his older brother, Oliver. Frederick becomes angry and banishes Rosalind from court. Celia and Rosalind decide to flee together accompanied by the court fool, Touchstone, with Rosalind disguised as a young man and Celia disguised as a poor lady. Rosalind, now disguised as Ganymede ("Jove's own page"), and Celia, now disguised as Aliena (Latin for "stranger"), arrive in the Arcadian Forest of Arden, where the exiled Duke now lives with some supporters, including "the melancholy Jaques", a malcontent figure, who is introduced weeping over the slaughter of
As You Like It (2006 film) Shakespeare adaptations, which had reached what many considered a low point with "Love's Labour's Lost". A negative US reviewer was film critic Stanley Kauffmann, who had admired Branagh's film versions of "Henry V", "Much Ado About Nothing", and "Hamlet"; he blasted the film, saying that he could barely get through it, and that, by giving it such an unusual setting, Branagh seemed to be trying to "apologize" to the viewing audience for the fact that "As You Like It" was a Shakespeare film. Critic Virginia Heffernan, writing for "The New York Times", was also negative, pointing out that film reduces