As You Like It

by Shakespeare, William; Brissenden, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780192834195
• ISBN10: 0192834193
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalindas authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeareas 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. "This will be the definitive edition of As You Like It for many years to come" - Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania

Author Biography

Alan Brissenden is Reader in English, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Introduction
The Play's Date	1	(4)
The Source	5	(8)
Love	13	(5)
Metamorphosis	18	(5)
Doubleness	23	(15)
Names and Places	38	(5)
Pastoral	43	(7)
The Play in Performance	50	(31)
'Your very, very Rosalind'	81	(3)
The Text	84	(3)
Editorial Procedures	87	(142)
Abbreviations and References	88	(5)
As You Like It	93	(136)
Appendix A Wit	229	(3)
Appendix B The Songs	232	(7)
Index	239