As You Like It

by Shakespeare, William; Bevington, David; Kastan, David Scott

• ISBN13: 9780553212907
• ISBN10: 0553212907
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-01-01
• Publisher: Bantam Classics

Summary

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period.

Author Biography

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. In London, Shakespeare became the principal playwright and shareholder of the successful acting troupe the Lord Chamberlin's men (later, under James I, called the King's men) which built and occupied the Globe theater. In 1616, he died in Stratford after having written 37 plays, sonnets, and other poetry which would become crucial to the cannon of English literature.

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface	p. ix
Shakespeare's As You Like It	p. xiii
Reading Shakespeare's Language: As You Like It	p. xv
Shakespeare's Life	p. xxviii
Shakespeare's Theater	p. xxxix
The Publication of Shakespeare's Plays	p. xlviii
An Introduction to This Text	p. lii
As You Like It (Text of the Play with Commentary)	p. 1
Longer Notes	p. 207
Textual Notes	p. 223
As You Like It: A Modern Perspective	p. 231
Further Reading	p. 243
Key to Famous Lines and Phrases	p. 261
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