BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 3 As You Like It
Duke Frederick has driven out the lawful Duke and usurped his duchy. Rosalind (daughter of the banished Duke) falls in love with Orlando de Boys, as he is beating Frederick's champion in a wrestling match. Frederick banishes her, too, and she leaves, disguised as a youth called Ganymede, taking Frederick's daughter Celia and his jester Touchstone with her. Rosalind's troupe heads for the Forest of Arden, where Rosalind's father is living quietly, with Orlando and his brother Jaques now members of the old Duke's rustic court. Rosalind decides to live for a time as Ganymede, and she/he finds Orlando hanging poems to Rosalind on trees (no doubt he knows what he's doing?)... Ganymede promises to cure Orlando of his love, while Touchstone woos a country girl, Audrey. Meanwhile, a shepherdess called Phebe falls in love with Ganymede, scorning the love of the bumpkin Silvius. Oliver de Boys, another brother of Orlando, arrives and falls heavily for Celia. At the end, Ganymede turns himself
First Air Date: Dec 03, 1978
Last Air date: Apr 27, 1985
Season: 7 Season
Episode: 68 Episode
Runtime: 150 minutes
IMDb: 5.20/10 by 5.00 users
Popularity: 41.622
Language: English
Episode
Romeo and Juliet
King Richard the Second
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Measure For Measure
King Henry the Eighth
King Henry the Fourth, Part I
King Henry the Fourth, Part II
King Henry the Fifth
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will
The Tempest
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Taming of the Shrew
The Merchant of Venice
All's Well That Ends Well
The Winter's Tale
Timon of Athens
Antony and Cleopatra
Othello
Troilus and Cressida
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King Lear
The Merry Wives of Windsor
King Henry the Sixth, Part I
King Henry the Sixth, Part II
King Henry the Sixth, Part III
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
Cymbeline
Macbeth
The Comedy of Errors
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Life and Death of King John
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
Titus Andronicus