As You Like It Audiobook
As You Like It Audiobook
- A Full Cast
- HarperCollins Publishers UK
- 2011-01-06
- 2 h 19 min
Summary:
ANOTHER POWERFUL GREAT BRITISH PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE OF THE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PLAY. PERFORMED WITH THE MAGNIFICENT VANESSA REDGRAVE AND Ensemble.
As YOU PREFER It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The work was based on the early prose love Rosalynde by Thomas Lodge. The play’s first performance is usually uncertain, though a overall performance at Wilton Home in 1603 has been suggested like a about As You Like It possibility. As You Like It comes after its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle’s courtroom, followed by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, to discover safety and finally like in the Forest of Arden. Historically, critical response has assorted, with some critics locating the function of minimal quality than additional Shakespearean works and some locating the play a function of great merit.
The play features one of Shakespeare’s most well-known and oft-quoted speeches, ‘All the world’s a stage,’ and is the origin from the phrase ‘too a lot of a very important thing.’ The play remains a favourite among viewers and continues to be adapted for radio, film, and musical theater.