As You Like It As You Like It 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. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. "As You Like It" follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden. In the forest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, notably the melancholy traveller Jaques who speaks
BBC Television Shakespeare characters' "time in the forest appear[ing] to be more an upscale camping expedition rather than exile." The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "As You Like It" was presented by Janet Suzman, who had played Rosalind in a 1967 RSC production directed by George Rylands. The "Shakespeare in Perspective" episode was presented by novelist Brigid Brophy. Cast Director Herbert Wise felt that "Julius Caesar" should be set in the Elizabethan era, but as per the emphasis on realism, he instead set it in a Roman "milieu". Wise argued that the play "is not really a Roman play. It's an Elizabethan play