Author: William Shakespeare
Title: As You Like It
Original publication date: 1623 (Folio)
Characters: Rosalind, Celia, Orlando, The Duke, Frederick, Amiens, Jaques, Le Beau, Charles, Oliver, Adam, Dennis, Touchstone, Sir Oliver Martext, Corin, Silvius, William, Phebe, Audrey,
Book awards: Olivier Award (Best Revival, 1995),
First words: As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness.
Quotations: All the World's a stage, and all the men an women merely players:...
Last words: If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet
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