...connotations of "dying." In As You Like It, Shakespeare's Rosalind debunked this poetic hyperbole: Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.57 Yet here in Shakespeare's last "happy comedy" we have something closer to a real death....

...ultimate destiny. The disguised Rosalind in As You Like It, iv, 1, laughs at the lovelorn Orlando: "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." The disguised Viola turns the figure in Twelfth Night, ii, 4, picturing her own forced restraint...

...being taken with the cramp, was drown'd; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was "Hero of Sestos." But these are all lies. Men have died...from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (IV.i.94-108) At the same time, Rosalind confesses to Celia how much she loves Orlando: "O...

...being taken with the cramp was drowned: and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But these are all lies: men have died...from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Rosalind— AYLI IV.i Wilt thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an instrument and play...

...In As You Like It, Shakespeare mocked the troubadours' convention of dying for love when he writes, "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them. But not for love." The troubadours and Shakespeare know that hearts break but they do not stop beating. For...

...instructing Orlando in the realities of love rather than the wornout cliches of Petrarchan sonneteering: 'Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.' (As You L1ke It, 4.1.92-3); or of Rosaline educating the cynical Biron in Love's Labour's...

...with the tart: 'I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary' (2.4.1-3), or Rosal1nd herself: 'Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love' (4.1.1OO).13 The world of high male literary culture constantly receives a shot in the arm...

...As Rosalind, in Shakespeare's As You Like It, says of various literary examples of the love-death: "But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love" (4.1.106-8). So, like its happier counterpart, Platonic love, the path of suffering love...

...exalted a view, she maintains mischievously. The accounts of the tragic fates of legendary lovers are "lies": "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love" (IV.i.96-98). Rosalind even goes so far as to put Orlando through a mock nuptial, with Celia...

...was indeed intended to be serious literature, and Shrake's title came from Shakespeare's admonition, "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, But not for love." An obvious heir to Brammer's The Gay Place, Shrake's novel charts a group of hip young Texans...