The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility.Īs 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. First page of As You Like It from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623Īs 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.
