
As you like it
Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Robin Schild
Unabridged: 2 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 12/06/2024
Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts

Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Robin Schild
Unabridged: 2 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 12/06/2024
Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts
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.
Yep, I’m going to spar with dead authors in this review. What else is new? As You Like It has a complex storyline involving two sets of brothers at odds with each other slapped together with a bit of politics and romance. The play has some of the most iconic lines in literature and has some laugh-out-......more
As in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Hamlet" and "Antony and Cleopatra," Shakespeare in "As You Like It" is able to join disparate elements in unusual proportion into a unified whole of tone and mood which may be rationalized but never completely explained. What I love about this play is the way in w......more
Orlando, the youngest, and most loved son of the late Sir Rowland de Boys, ( set in France in the 16th Century) is being mistreated by his older brother Oliver, the middle son Jaques, is away at school, since Oliver inherited most of the rich estate, and money, he has the power of the purse to do an......more
I was at Shakespeare’s Globe in London yesterday watching this play and it was fab! I then came home and read it (got to love the literary life!) The best thing about the performance was the fact that Orlando was played by a woman who was less that five feet tall and Rosalind was played by a man was......more
Book Review 3 of 5 stars to As You Like It, a pastoral comedy and play written by William Shakespeare around 1599. Rosalind falls for Orlando for many reasons in Shakespeare’s play As You Like It. Since Orlando is such a small man compared to Charles the wrestler, when Orlando beats Charle......more