“Thrice welcome”: The power of three in As You Like It

Folger Shakespeare Library: We all know that Shakespeare loved twins, but less talked about is how much he adored triplets. From the three weird sisters in Macbeth, to King Lear’s three daughters, to the rhetorical majesty of “Friends, Romans, countrymen,” Shakespeare understood well the power of three and deployed it, perhaps most unexpectedly, in his popular comedy As You Like It.