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