As You Like It Annotated

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. It features one of Shakespeare’s most famous and oft-quoted lines, “All the world’s a stage”, and has been adapted for radio, film, and musical theatre.