BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 3 As You Like It

BBC Television Shakespeare
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
TitleBBC Television Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 3 As You Like It
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First Air DateDec 03, 1978
Last Air dateApr 27, 1985
Season7 Season
Episode68 Episode
Runtime150:14 minutes
QualityHD
IMDb: 5.20/ 10 by 5.00 users
Popularity43.359
LanguageEnglish