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As You Like It - Part 2

Season 2025, Ep. 2

In this episode, we explore Scene 2 of As You Like It, one of Shakespeare's most popular and elegant comedies: the forest of Arden, the banished Duke Senior and his lords, the melancholy "environmentalist" Jaques who utters the famous line "all the world's a stage", and more.

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