Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics ‘ All the world&s a stage And all the men & women merely players’ Featuring Rosalind one of Shakespeare’s most likeable & strong female protagonists As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity love exile & artifice Banished from the court by her uncle Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin Celia & her jester joining her already exiled father & disguising herself as a boy In the guise of a young man she instructs her would-be lover Orlando in the ways of love & in doing so allows Shakespeare to explore the dynamics of the city & the country as well as the sexual politics of the time