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

Veteran stars of stage and screen, including Geraldine James and Celia Bannerman, will perform in As You Like It in Stratford-upon-Avon from 17 June.

From BBC

Audiences will see the stage set as a rehearsal room, with performers sharing memories of a long-gone production of As You Like It, scripts in hand.

From BBC

Imagine Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” rewritten as a decadent sex farce, set aloft to music that takes its inspiration more from Rachmaninoff than from Rodgers and Hammerstein and unleashed on the stage as a series of waltzes.

From Los Angeles Times

Shapiro’s book, which won the prize in 2006, explores Shakespeare’s life in teeming Tudor London in the year he turned 35, completed “Henry V,” wrote “Julius Caesar” and “As You Like It” and produced the first draft of “Hamlet,” widely regarded as his greatest play.

From Seattle Times

Waddingham also used sign language to welcome former Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis, who was nominated for best supporting actress for As You Like It.

From BBC