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As You Like It is a pastoral comey by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600. It features one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-quoted lines, "All the world's a stage", and has been adapted for radio, film, and musical theatre.

Trivia about as you like it

  • Anthony Hopkins played the female role of Audrey in an all-male production of this "likable" comedy
  • The lines “And thereby hangs a tale” & “All the world's a stage” come from this comedy
  • Shakespeare's male-disguised heroines, like Rosalind in this play, were originally played by boys
  • Shakespeare compares a whining schoolboy to a snail in this play's "All the world's a stage" speech
  • "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"
  • Characters in this play include the charming Rosalind & the sardonic Jaques
  • "A.Y.L.I."
  • In this comedy Jaques says to Orlando in the Forest of Arden, "Let's meet as little as we can"
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Stratford-upon-Avon, England) You'll find "The whining schoolboy creeping like snail unwillingly to school" in "The Ages of Man" speech from this Shakespeare play
  • In this comedy Duke Senior laments to Orlando that they have "seen better days"
  • Duke Senior is banished to the Forest of Arden by his brother in this "amenable" play
  • "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed", explains Rosalind in this comedy
  • The alternate title of "Twelfth Night" means roughly the same as the title of this other Shakespeare play
  • Set in the forest of Arden, this comedy has more songs than any other Shakespeare play

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