As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

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Explanation and Analysis:

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s comedies. Seventeen of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven recognized plays are comedies, including classics like The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespearean comedy is almost its own genre, full of specific conventions and themes that can be found across the corpus of Shakespeare’s work.