When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her fathers throne, she flees to the Forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - now a fellow exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, As You Like It is an exuberant combi When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her fathers throne, she flees to the Forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - now a fellow exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, As You Like It is an exuberant combination of concealed identities and verbal jousting, reconciliations and multiple weddings. This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeares life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to As You Like It , a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.