As You Like It owes its charm and beauty to the favour of love that pervades throughout the play. The play may be called a fountain of pure and sweet love where the lovers attain an unending joy and relief. It is love and only love that injects life into play. There are four love-couples in the play. Touchstone-Audrey love-couple is one of them.
Love between Touchstone and Audrey is without romance, idealism, and glamour. Audrey is ugly, but he does not mind that. In her very presence, he refers to her as 'a poor virgin, an ill-favoured thing'. Audrey has no beauty, charm, wealth, or intellligence, yet Touchstone goes into matrimony. Even before he has married her, he thinks of divorcing her. Probably, Shakespeare has in his mind to present a contrast between romantic love of Rosalind and Orlando and the coarse and bestial love of Touchstone and Audrey.
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