Rosalind (As You Like It)
Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare. In the play, she disguises herself as a male shepherd named Ganymede. Many actors have portrayed Rosalind, including Sarah Wayne Callies, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Bergner, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen Mirren, Patti LuPone, Helen McCrory, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrian Lester and Arabella Dulcie.
Rosalind by Robert Walker Macbeth
William Beechey, Dorothea Jordan as Rosalind in Shakespeare's ‘As You Like It’
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility.
First page of As You Like It from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623
Marie Davey as Rosalind in As You Like It 2017
Poster for the Federal Theatre Project production of As You Like It at the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago
All the World's a Stage William Mulready (1838)