As You Like It

Tells a tale of romance, full of happy love and an optimistic philosophy of simple goodness. Life in the forest is a perpetual picnic with few outward signs of the winter's wind. Lovers are reunited, a wronged duke is restored to his rightful dukedom, wicked brothers are instantaneously converted to contrite penitence.

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""As You Like It" can be enjoyed on different levels. On the surface, it is an idyllic romance, full of happy love and an optimistic philosophy of simple goodness. Life in the forest is a perpetual picnic with few outward signs of the winter's wind. Lovers are reunited, a wronged duke is restored to his rightful dukedom, wicked brothers are instantaneously converted to contrite penitence. All of which is as it should be. But yet it may be that Shakespeare had a private wink for the more sophisticated; for among the denizens of the forest he included Touchstone, a professional cynic, and Jaques, the disillusioned epicure of sensation! Both are caustic observes to whom youthful romantic love is a silly illusion." - G.B Harrison, Editor of texts for the Shakespeare Recording Society.