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    As You Like It
    As You Like It
    As You Like It
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    As You Like It

    Written by William Shakespeare

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love Orlando also shows up in the forest, she courts him without revealing her identity. Meanwhile, Phebe mistakenly falls in love with her disguise, Silvius pines for Phebe, Jacques philosophizes, and Touchstone makes fun of it all, and love and happiness triumph (for the most part) as Rosalind orchestrates a happy ending amid the confusion. (Summary by Rosalind Wills)

    Cast:
    Duke Senior – hefyd
    Duke Frederick – Chugosh
    Amiens – Cecelia Prior
    Jaques – Elizabeth Klett
    Le Beau – Simon Larois
    Charles – Leon Mire
    Oliver – Larysa Jaworski
    Jacques du Boys and Second Lord – David Lawrence
    Orlando – mb
    Adam – Brian Edwards
    Dennis – Annoying Twit
    Touchstone – Mark F. Smith
    Sir Oliver Martext – Aaron Elliott
    Corin – Sibella Denton
    Silvius – David Nicol
    William – Ernst Pattynama
    Hymen – Lorelle Anderson
    Rosalind – Rosalind Wills
    Celia – Philippa
    Phebe – Charlene V. Smith
    Audrey – Mindy H
    First Lord – Mirza
    First Page – Ruth Golding
    Second Page – David O'Connell
    Forester – pla303
    Stage directions – Laurie Anne Walden

    Audio edited by Rosalind Wills

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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      It's a Shakespearean comedy so of course it was great. This version is quite clearly read and well-paced.