As You Like It (version 3)
by William Shakespeare

dramatis personae of as you like it by william shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org persons represented duke living in exile read by craig franklin frederick brother to the duke and usurper of his dominions read by craig franklin amiens lord attending on the duke in his punishment read by sonja jaquise lord attending on the duke in his banishment read by brad le beau a quarter attending upon frederick read by bread charles his wrestler read by craig franklin oliver son of sir roland du bois read by brad jaquise son of sir roland du bois read by sonia orlando son of sir roland du bois read by thomas peter servant to oliver read by craig franklin dennis servant to oliver read by sonja touchstone a clown read by craig franklin sir oliver martext a vicar read by thomas peter coren a shepherd read by bread sylvius a shepherd read by thomas peter william a country fellow in love with audrey read by bread a person representing hyman read by thomas peter rosalind daughter to the banished duke read by sonia celia daughter to frederick read by thomas peter phoebe a shepherdess read by sonia audrey a country wench read by sonia duke seniors first lord read by sonia duke seniors second lord read by bread duke frederick's first lord read by sonia duke frederick's second lord read by bread first page read by bread second page read by thomas peter forrester read by craig franklin narrator read by thomas peter the scene lies first near oliver's house afterwards partly in the usurper's court and partly in the forest of arden end of dramatus personae

act one of as you like it by william shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act one scene one an orchard near oliver's house enter orlando and adam as i remember adam it was upon this fashion the queen by will but pour a thousand crowns and as thou says charged my brother on his blessing to breed me well and there begins my sadness my brother jaquez he keeps at school and report speaks goldenly of his prophet for my part he keeps me rustically at home all to speak more properly stays me here at home unkept the call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth that differs not from the stalling of an ox his horse is are bred better for besides that they are fair with their feeding they are taught their manage and to that end ride is dearly hired but i his brother gain nothing under him but growth for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound him as i besides this nothing that he so plentily gives me there's something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me he lets me feed with his hinds bars me the place of a brother and as much as in him lies minds my gentility my education this is it adam that grieves me and the spirit of my father which i think is within me begins to mutiny against the servitude i will no longer endure it though yet i know no wise remedy how to avoid it youngjae come my master your brother go apart adam and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up adam retires enter oliver now sir what make you hear nothing i am not taught to make anything what my you then sir mary sir i am helping you tomorrow that which god made a poor unworthy brother of yours with idleness mary sir be better employed and be not a while should i keep your hogs and eat husks with him what prodigal portion have i spent that i should come to such penury know you where you are sir oh sir very well here in your orchard know you before whom sir i better than him i am before knows me i know you are my eldest brother and in the gentle condition of blood you should so know me the courtesy of nations allows you my better in that you are the firstborn but the same tradition takes not...