#47 in Humour
As You Like It
- 151
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
- Film 2006 +4
- On screen
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Our view
“As You Like It” is Shakespeare’s short, playful pastoral comedy of courtship, with disguises, a fool and several pairs of lovers. Believed to date from 1599 and first printed in 1623, it runs to about 150 pages. Some readers enjoy the text while finding the plot silly, and feel that too many changes of heart take place off stage.
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About the book
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 5 times — from 1905 to 2021.
- FilmAs You Like ItIMDb
- FilmThe Seven AgesIMDb
- SeriesShakespeare: The Animated TalesIMDb
- FilmAs You Like ItIMDb
- FilmJie da huan xiIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 158 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 52% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Humour average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 22 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 136 | 86% |
Frequently asked
How long is As You Like It?
It has 151 pages — shorter than 90% of the ranked books in Humour.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Humour — with scores between 7.6 and 8.0, closest to this book.
