As You Like It
FREDERICK -- brother to the DUKE, and usurper of his dominions
AMIENS, JAQUES -- Lords attending upon the DUKE in his banishment
LE BEAU -- a courtier attending upon FREDERICK
CHARLES -- his wrestler
OLIVER, JAQUES, ORLANDO -- sons of SIR ROWLAND DE BOIS
ADAM, DENNIS -- Servants to OLIVER
TOUCHSTONE -- a clown
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT -- a vicar
CORIN, SILVIUS -- shepherds
WILLIAM -- a country fellow, in love with AUDREY
A person representing HYMEN
ROSALIND -- daughter to the banished DUKE
CELIA -- daughter to FREDERICK
PHEBE -- a shepherdess
AUDREY -- a country wench
Lords belonging to the two dukes
Pages, foresters, and other attendants
PLAY
First near Oliver's house; afterwards partly in the Usurper's Court and partly in the Forest of Arden.
ACT I
Scene i: An orchard near Oliver's house.
Scene ii: A lawn before the Duke's palace.
Scene iii: A room in the palace.
ACT II
Scene i: The Forest of Arden.
Scene ii: A room in the palace.
Scene iii: Before Oliver's house.
Scene iv: The Forest of Arden.
Scene v: Another part of the Forest.
Scene vi: Another part of the Forest.
Scene vii: Another part of the Forest. A table set.
ACT III
Scene i: A room in the palace.
Scene ii: The Forest of Arden.
Scene iii: Another part of the Forest.
Scene iv: Another part of the Forest. Before a cottage.
ACT IV
Scene i: The Forest of Arden.
Scene ii: Another part of the Forest.
Scene iii: Another part of the Forest.
ACT V
Scene i: The Forest of Arden.
Scene ii: Another part of the Forest.
Scene iii: Another part of the Forest.
Scene iv: Another part of the Forest.
EPILOGUE
Act II: Scene vii
JAQUES: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts bring seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
When the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly and good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
