AS YOU LIKE IT

Well-known for its oft-quoted 'Seven Ages of Man' speech, this lively pastoral romance offers an eloquent meditation on the many-faceted but ultimately ephemeral nature of existence. 'As You Like It' moves easily from lighthearted comedy to a deeperexploration of social and literary issues, depicting an enchanted community in which disguised lovers and merry outlaws debate justice, literary conventions, the uses of satire, relations between the sexes, and other intellectual matters, all in theincomparable language of Shakespeare.