As You Like It

American  

noun

1. a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.

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As You Like It Cultural  

1. A comedy by William Shakespeare. Most of the action takes place in the Forest of Arden, to which several members of a duke's court have been banished. The speech “All the world's a stage” is from As You Like It.

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Example Sentences

Hurt made her New York stage debut in a 1973 in an off-Broadway production of “As You Like It,” according to Playbill.

From Los Angeles Times

He even enlists Rosalind in ”As You Like It” and Prospero in “The Tempest” to bid their audiences farewell.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s a quality of intelligent feeling redolent of Rosalind in “As You Like It” in Wicks’ affecting characterization and luscious singing.

From Los Angeles Times

Minor parts, including in Henry IV Part 1 and As You Like It, preceded a meatier role as Alan Downie in the 1983 production of Slab Boys, with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon.

From BBC

“All the world’s a stage,/ and all the men and women merely players,” Jaques declares in “As You Like It,” and his melancholy set piece reflects a standard Elizabethan trope that Shakespeare as a man of the theater couldn’t resist.

From Los Angeles Times