Not suit for comedy central...

This is play is so obviously a romantic comedy that I feel that it definitely needs a blog post to reaffirm this well known fact.

Rosalind: "To you I give myself, for I am yours.  To you I give myself, for I am yours" V.iv.76.

 Did anyone else notice that she repeated herself?

Instead of just simply stating why this is a comedy, I have decided that I will tell you every reason that I can tell as to why this is not a tragedy.

• No one dies.  Had this been a tragedy, Oliver would have killed Orlando, Rosalind would have committed suicide having found out, and Jaquez would have accidentally fallen into a river, hitting his head on a rock and going unconscious, thereby drowning himself.  Oh, I suppose a deer dies, but animals have no souls (but that does not mean that they can't go to heaven!).
• Everyone lived happily ever after.  Had this been a tragedy, Oliver would be no longer talking and obviously sent into exile for plotting to kill his brother.  Everyone is far too happy... for now.
• No one dies.

I suppose I could say that this is a comedy because everyone got married and the fifth act was a giant party, but I will not.  This play was secretly a comedy because it was funny.

Orlando: "He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you shall see him."

Jaquez:  "There I shall see mine own figure"  III.ii.42.

Oh, burn. Orlando got the jokes!