As You Like It

First published in the First Folio in 1623 'As You Like It' is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare an English playwright poet and actor. It is the story of a Duke who is unjustly ousted by his younger brother Frederick and flees to the Forest of Arden. The Duke's daughter Rosalind remains behind at the court. When it is discovered that Orlando the youngest son of the deceased Sir Rowland de Boys has fallen in love with her Orlando is forced to flee. Rosalind follows after him with her cousin Celia to the Forest of Arden where he has gone to join the deposed Duke. In order to avoid detection the two disguise their appearance Rosalind as a young man and Cecilia as a poor woman. In the forest they meet a variety of interesting characters including most notably the melancholy Jaques one of the deposed Duke's noblemen who speaks some of Shakespeare's most striking lines. Top 10 Hardcover Library Books: A Wrinkle in Time (9789389440188) How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (9789387669161) Their Eyes Were Watching God (9789389440577) The Magic of Believing (9789388118217) Zen in the Art of Archery (9789354990298) A Cloud by Day a Fire by Night (9789391181611) Siddhartha by Hermann hesse (9789387669116) The Richest Man in Babylon (9789354990717) The Book of Five Rings (9789389440553) The Knowledge of the Holy (9789389157239) Note: Search by ISBN