About As You Like It (AYLI)

"All the world's a stage." Shakespeare's popular pastoral comedy about love, disguises, swapped gender roles, and banishment into the woods comes to the Sunshine Coast in July 2026!

AYLI Scripts

• OUR EDITED SCRIPT v 1.6 (subject to further changes)

• Line Changes to our script: made after Apr 8th

• OUR SCENE BREAKDOWN of who’s in which scene. X=lines, N=nonspeaking, S=song only.

• Internet Shakespeare’s overview and full unabridged script with linked definitions

• Folger Shakespeare Library's plot synopsis and full script

• LitCharts side-by-side original and modern translation

AYLI Music

Songs (titles link to recordings)

New! Scratch vocal practice recordings with words, for all songs except Fair Phyllis (see below)

• Hey Ho, to the Greenwood Now Let Us Go (score in key of G; MIDI practice part): Amiens, All Forest Lords & Forest Page, Duke Senior, Jaques, RenFriends Singers, et al (anyone who wants to sing it)

• Trolly Lolly (score version 2) - Amiens and Lord #1 with Lord #3 accompanying on “Renaissance guitar”

• Knights of the Arden Forest (score, MIDI practice part), to the tune of Knights of the Round Table - All Forest Lords & Forest Page

• Under the Greenwood Tree (score, MIDI practice part), to the tune of Greenwood AKA Will You Walk the Woods So Wild - verse 1 & 2: Amiens solo on verse, All Forest Lords & Forest Page on chorus; verse 3 - Jacques

• Blow Thy Horn, Hunter (score, MIDI practice parts: top line harmony, middle line melody, bottom line) - Amiens, All Forest Lords & Forest Page.

• Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind (score, MIDI practice parts: top & middle lines together, bottom line), to the tune of Green Groweth the Holly - Amiens and Lord #1 on verses, All Forest Lords & Forest Page on chorus.

• Fair Phyllis (score, practice parts with words!) - Amiens, All Forest Lords & Forest Page, RenFriends Singers, et al (anyone who wants to sing it)

• O Sweet Martext (score, MIDI practice part), to the tune of O Sweet Oliver (score) - Touchstone

• The Hunt is Up (score, MIDI practice parts: Melody, Soprano 2, Alto, Tenor) - Amiens, All Forest Lords & Forest Page

• What Shall He Have that Killed the Deer (score, MIDI practice parts: Lords & Page, Amiens) - Amiens & Lord #1 on descant, All Forest Lords & Forest Page on ground

• It Was a Lover And His Lass (score with 3 verses, MIDI practice parts) - Amiens, All Forest Lords, BOTH Pages, RenFriends Singers, et al (anyone who wants to sing it)

• Wedding is Great Juno’s Crown (score; MIDI practice parts: soprano, alto, bass), to the tune of Dulcina - Amiens, All Forest Lords, BOTH Pages, RenFriends Singers, et al (anyone who wants to sing it)

• Youtube Playlist of the original versions of these songs, plus instrumental pieces we’ll probably play

• Dropbox of all scores, not only the songs

AYLI Performances and Summary Videos

Shakespeare is meant to be seen or heard, not read. In Shakespeare's day, only about 30% of men and 10% of women could read. You went to the theatre to "hear" a play.

• Globe Theatre's 16thC-period 2009 production (on DVD) - well worth watching

• Oxford Theatre Guild's 2020 production

• 1936 film adaptation with Laurence Olivier!

• Royal Shakespeare Company summary (2 min) and scene-by-scene description

• HandleBards summary using only props! (6 minutes)

• Gradesaver animated summary (9 minutes)

Actors' Resources for AYLI

• Our Character Notes for AYLI

• Behind the Scenes of As You Like It, with Lise Kreps & Michael Gurney

• Royal Shakespeare Company's Exploring Acting AYLI and Character Notes

• Shakespeare With Sarah Actor's Guide to AYLI

• Internet Shakespeare’s Introduction essay to AYLI

• Variations on a Theme of Love: An Introduction to AYLI - essay by Ian Johnston

• Shakespeare For All's podcast 3-part series about AYLI (scroll down)

• Shakespeare’s Globe #SuchStuff podcast (transcript) on AYLI

• OpenUniversity's free online course, Reading AYLI

Actors’ Resources for Performing Shakespeare

• Glossary of Shakespearean words and names, with pronunciations (click the speaker icon; apostrophe comes just before the stressed syllable)

• For natural yet powerful delivery of Shakespeare's words, few can match Benedict Cumberbatch. Watch his Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech.

• ShakespeareWithSarah Youtube channel

  • Speaking in iambic pentameter

  • How to act Shakespeare

• Ben Crystal's ShakespeareOnToast Youtube channel

  • What's Iambic Pentameter? (5 min)

  • How to Map a Shakespeare Speech (18 min, well worth it)

  • The First Folio, and a 1676 working script copy (9 min)

  • Although Shakespearean Original Pronunciation (10 min, shot in the Globe Theatre) is fascinating, our production will be (mostly) in ordinary Western Canadian.

• What is an Italian Run?

• Theatre Pro app (iPhone or iPad, $17) bundle of Shakespeare Pro, Script To Go, and Soliloquy Pro

Renaissance Dance teaching videos

• Galliard (also "Cinquepace" after its five steps - or, if you're Sir Toby, "Sink-a-pace"), a fast triple-meter kicking dance

• Coranto (also "Courante"), a not-so-fast triple-meter skipping dance

• Bransle (Washerwoman's Bransle - we like the scolding fingers), a duple-meter stomping dance

• Pavan (also "pavane" or "pavin"), a stately duple-meter parade around the room, to show off your fancy clothes

Sunshine Coast Community Shakespeare Project

coastshakespeare ( at ) gmail.com

We are fortunate and grateful to work and play in ch'atlich (Sechelt), on the unceded ancestral lands of the shíshálh Nation.