Banished to the Forest of Arden, Rosalind disguises herself as a boy and coaches the lovesick Orlando in wooing her — herself.
Books that mention As You Like It (21)
No Name by Wilkie Collins: “A Scotch terrier scampered into view; and a cheerful voice sang the first lines of the glee in "As You Like It."”
Kipps by H. G. Wells: “Then she introduced the topic of a forthcoming open-air performance of "As You Like It,"”
The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper: “Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear How he will shake me up. —As you like it.”
The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade: “Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard." --As You Like It.”
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “We read together, "As You Like It," Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America,"”
The Antiquary by Walter Scott: “Full of wise saws and modern instances. As You Like It.”
Old Mortality by Walter Scott: “Whom does time gallop withal? As You Like It.”
Guy Mannering by Walter Scott: “With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws, and modern instances: And so he plays his part. --As You Like It.”
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence: “one afternoon, reading As You Like It”
The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings: “a curious and interesting feeling which I experienced upon first opening to 'As You Like It'”
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster: “chosen for the spring dramatics--As You Like It out of doors”
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: “Celia hurls a physical volume of it at her father's ghost: "she picks up a volume from the pile of Shakespeare and hurls it at him. As You Like It passes through his chest without pause..."”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “I'm too busy sewing those dammed costumes for fucking As You Like It.”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “who's the chappie that comes down on a swing at the end of As You Like It?”
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “the purity of his enthusiasm for making, say, an As You Like It to run for a few nights at a community theater”
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “To-day a sentry on post was reading ‘As You Like It,’ and whenever I go down the line half the men want to know who won the boat race.”
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell: “The Jacques Statement, named for the character in As You Like It who gives the Seven Ages of Man speech, tailors the prediction to the age of the subject.”
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag: “Why is the atmosphere of Shakespeare's comedies (As You Like It, etc.) not epicene, while that of Der Rosenkavalier is?”
How to be both by Ali Smith: “the festival she was working at last summer, she was selling and tearing tickets for As You Like It at St John’s … Heigh-ho, green holly. Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving: “some of Shakepeare's commentators have supposed he derived his noble forest meditations of Jaques and the enchanting woodland pictures in "As You Like It."”