As You Like It is middle Shakespeare, probably lateish 1590s. It’s not one of the earlier happy comedies like the verbally dazzling Love’s Labour’s Lost or the rough and tumble The Taming of the Shrew but nor does it have the pensive quality, fringed with melancholy, of that world of wind and rain in Twelfth Night, a happy comedy so late it encompasses aspects of its opposite.
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