SOURCE: "Lodge's Rosalind: Decorum in Arden," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring, 1977, pp. 117-27.

In the following article, Larson claims that Rosalynde was intended as a guide to appropriate behavior for the bourgeois and aristocratic readers of Lodge's time.

Smirking over an example of feminine cruelty in a love affair, Rosalind, the lovely princess of Bordeaux, calls all women "mad cattle" in affairs of the heart. When she is warned by her girlfriend Alinda not to be too hard on their sex, Rosalind reminds Alinda that it is not, after all, a princess who is making the judgment, but rather Ganymede, the male page that the princess has become for purposes of her journey into exile in the forest of Arden. "'Thus,' quoth Ganymede, 'I keep decorum: I speak now as I am Aliena's page, not as I am Gerismond's daughter; for put me but...