“As You like It” was written by William Shakespeare, and published by the Penguin Group in 1963.The play is 138 pages.
“As You Like It” is a happy, romantic Shakespearean comedy. It is a pleasurable play filled with witty language and unique characters. Its love of nature, love of falling in love, and love of families makes it easily accessible to all that read or see it.
Duke Senior is one of the protagonist of the play His ducal rights are taken away from him by his younger brother, Frederick. He leads a life of exile in the Forest of Arden with some of his lords. His ducal rights are restored to him towards the end of the play when his brother has a moral conversion.
Duke Frederick is one of the antagonist of the play. He is a contrast in every respect to Duke Senior. Towards the end of the play he tries to amend for his past ways.
Touchstone is a fool in the Duke’s court. He accompanies Rosalind and Celia to the Forest of Arden.
Oliver de Boys is the eldest son of Sir Rowland de Boys and one of the antagonists of the play. He denies his brother Orlando his rightful inheritance and the education that is due to him. Wicked and villainous by nature, he wants to have Orlando killed. However, Orlando saves him from a

Orlando de Boys is a protagonist of the play. To escape his brother's plot to kill him, he goes to the forest, courts Rosalind, and weds her.

Act 3 begins when Duke Frederick tells Oliver he has one year to bring forth Orlando. Until that time, anything Oliver has worth seizing becomes the Dukes. Oliver is upset, but does nothing about it.In scene 2 Orlando hangs on the forest trees poems he writes for Rosalind. He leaves and Touchstone enters with Corin and they commence into a battle of wits, which Corin is no match for. Rosalind enters reading a poem she found about herself on a tree. Touchstone makes fun of her because he thinks she is making up verses about herself. Celia, too, enters bearing a poem from a tree and the girls discuss who could have put it there. Celia tells her that Orlando wrote the poems and Rosalind is excited. Orlando then enters with Jaques who is telling him that he should not be so in love. Jaques leaves, and Rosalind enters as Ganymede and begins talking to Orlando. She tells him that she can cure his lovesickness, but to do so he has to pretend she is Rosalind and come to court her everyday. He agrees and they part. In scene 3 Touchstone decides that he wants to marry a woman named Audrey. Jaques comes upon them in the forest when the priest arrives and offers to give the woman away. He then tells Touchstone that he should wait until they get married in a real church. In the fourth scene, Rosalind and Celia in their disguises discuss the fact that Orlando did not come this morning like he swore he would. Rosalind wants to cry because of this. Celia tells her that Orlando is living with her father in the woods, and Rosalind says how yesterday she ran into the duke in her disguise. Corin enters and asks them if they want to come see Silvius and the woman he loves, Phoebe. Hoping to ease her own heartache, Rosalind agrees for them. In scene 5, Silvius and Phoebe sit talking in the forest. Silvius professes his love for her, but she does not show the treatment towards him. Rosalind, Celia, and Corin come upon them, and Rosalind intervenes and begins to talk toPhoebe for her treatment of Silvius. Instead of becoming angry with “Ganymede,” Phoebe falls in love with him and leaves to write him a letter that Silvius, not knowing her feelings, agrees to take to him.

Act 2 begins with the banished Duke Senior and his comrades are sitting in the forest of Arden discussing how much they love their life there. They then hold a conversation about a man at court, Jaques. In the second scene Duke Frederick finds that Celia, Rosalind, and Touchstone are missing. One of Celia’s attendants tells him that she overheard the girls talking about Orlando, and that he is probably with them wherever they are. The Duke sends men to Orlando’s house to find him and bring him back. While Orlando is at home, his servant and friend Adam, who is much older than he, tells him that his brother is planning to kill him. Oliver is jealous of his successes wrestling, and sick of supporting him. Adam warns Orlando to leave, but Orlando does not know where to go. Adam then offers him the money he has saved for his old age. Orlando does not want to take it, but they decide they will leave together. In the scene Rosalind, dressed as the boy Ganymede, Celia, dressed as the country girl, Aliena, and Touchstone reach the Forest of Arden. They are extremely tired when they come upon an old and young shepherd. The younger, Silvius, is love stricken, and the older, Corin, is trying to tell him how to deal with it. Silvius does not think that Corin knows how he feels though he says he has experience with love. The three travelers listen to the conversation while hiding from the men. Rosalind states that she understands how the boy feels because of her feelings for Orlando. They catch Corin’s attention and ask him if there is anywhere they can stay. He tells them that the man he works for would not let them s