The cast of As you like it
The people who make As you like it move — what they want, who they love, who they hate, and how each one fits the story. Tap any name to read more.
Servant to Sir Rowland de Boys; no blood relations nameds
Duke Frederick (father)s
Brother to Duke Senior; uncle to Rosalind; father to Celias
Father of Rosalinds
Son of Sir Rowland de Boys; eldest brother to Orlando and Jaques de Boys
Son of Sir Rowland de Boys; youngest brother of Oliver and Jaques de Boys
Daughter of Duke Senior (banished); cousin to Celias
Other characters
Touchstone
Licensed fool and witty commentator; voice of pragmatic earthiness and verbal deflation
Jaques
A melancholy courtier and philosophical observer; the play's conscience and its skeptic
Corin
A working shepherd; voice of practical wisdom and honest labour
Silvius
A young shepherd hopelessly in love with Phebe; embodies the pastoral lover devoted beyond reason
Phebe
A disdainful shepherdess who falls in love with Ganymede
Le Beau
A courtier and messenger; purveyor of gossip and sporting news
Audrey
A goatherd and reluctant bride, caught between Touchstone's wit and her own simplicity
Amiens
A courtier and musician in the exiled Duke Senior's forest retinue
William
Country youth and hapless suitor · 25
Charles
The duke's wrestler; instrument of Oliver's malice
First Lord
Courtier and attendant to Duke Senior; witness to Jaques's melancholy
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