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As You Like It
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"As You Like It" is a comedy by William Shakespeare set in a pastoral setting, featuring themes of love, disguise, and self-discovery as characters navigate relationships in an idealized forest world. The play matters as a significant work in Shakespeare's canon that explores the nature of love and identity through witty dialogue and has remained popular with audiences for over four centuries.
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Wikidata facts
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Genre
- Shakespearean comedy
- Country of origin
- England
- Image
- Deverell Walter Howard A Scene from As You Like It.jpg
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- Commons category
- As You Like It
- topic's main category
- Category:As You Like It
- inception
- 1599-00-00
- publication date
- 1623-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- As You Like It
- derivative work
- As You Like It
- copyright status
- public domain
- first line
- As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness.
- form of creative work
- play
- work available at URL
- standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-shakespeare/as-you-like-it
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Encyclopedic overview
An account of the plot of the play.
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.
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