As You Like It in a location called the Forest of Arden. This may be intended as the Ardennes, a forested region covering an area located in southeast Belgium, western Luxembourg and northeastern France, or Arden, Warwickshire, near Shakespeare's home town, which was the ancestral origin of his mother's family—who incidentally were called "Arden". Frederick has usurped the duchy and exiled his older brother, Duke Senior. Duke Senior's daughter, Rosalind, has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend and cousin of Frederick's only child, Celia. Orlando, a young gentleman of the kingdom who at first sight has fallen in
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