As You Like It piece has been a favourite of famous actors on stage and screen, notably Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson, Maggie Smith, Rebecca Hall, Helen Mirren, and Patti LuPone in the role of Rosalind and Alan Rickman, Stephen Spinella, Kevin Kline, Stephen Dillane, and Ellen Burstyn in the role of Jaques. Main Characters: "The Court of Duke Frederick:" "The Household of the deceased Sir Rowland de Boys:" "The Exiled Court of Duke Senior in the Forest of Arden:" "Country folk in the Forest of Arden:" "Other characters:" The play is set in a duchy in France, but most of the action takes place
As You Like It (2006 film) Greece on 7 September 2006, and in the UK on 21 September 2007. In the United States, HBO began airing the film on TV on the evening of 21 August 2007, but it has never had a true theatrical release in the US, only occasional one-time showings, and most of these US showings took place after the film's television premiere. It is the only one of Branagh's Shakespeare films to be released directly to television instead of to theatres in the US. The DVD was released in the US on 25 September 2007. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that