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. The Play's First Performance Is Uncertain, Though A Performance At Wilton House In 1603 Has Been Suggested As A Possibility. It Features One Of Shakespeare's Most Famous And Oft-quoted Lines, All The World's A Stage, And Has Been Adapted For Radio, Film, And Musical Theatre.