William Shakespeare 
As You Like It [EPUB ebook] 

‘As You Like It’ is a five-act comedy by William Shakespeare, written and performed about 1598–1600 and first published in the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare based the play on ‘Rosalynde’  a prose romance by Thomas Lodge written in 1590.
‘As You Like It’ subverts the traditional rules of romance. Gender roles, nature and politics are confused in a play that reflects on how bewildering yet utterly pleasurable life can be.
Rosalind and her cousin escape into the forest and find Orlando, Rosalind’s love. Disguised as a boy shepherd, Rosalind has Orlando woo her under the guise of ‘curing’ him of his love for Rosalind. Rosalind reveals she is a girl and marries Orlando during a group wedding at the end of the play.