Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) As You Like It

Jacques’s speech the seven ages of man has become so well known that, like Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” it exists almost independently from the play. Listen to Benedict Cumberbatch deliver it.

Music is a vital part of As You Like It. You can listen to a modern setting of the songs in from the play in this album done for a Royal Shakespeare Company Production

Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynde retold Euphues Golden Legacy and provided Shakespeare with his source material for As You Like It.

Like Twelfth Night, As You Like It’s comic romances are complicated by a series of men falling in love with women who are masquerading as men, some of whom then pretend to be women…and all of whom are played by the boy actors of Shakespeare’s time. Untangle some of those complications with this…

Shakespeare’s comedies are known for their use of the “fool.” His fools are sometimes truly foolish, and sometimes foolish in a way that reveals a deep and important wisdom. Inspiration for the wise fool can be traced to Erasmus’s Praise of Folly.