Date and Text
"As You Like It" was first printed in the collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, known as the First Folio, 1623. No copy of it in Quarto exists, for the play is mentioned by the printers of the first Folio among those which 'are not formerly entered to other men'. By means of evidences, external and internal, the date of composition of the play has been approximately fixed at a period between the end of 1598 and the middle of 1600.
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