As You Like It Third Series

by Shakespeare, William; Dusinberre, Juliet

• ISBN13: 9781904271222
• ISBN10: 1904271227
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-25
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Summary

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence,As You Like Itspeaks 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. Dusinberre's introduction begins with a brief analysis of the play to preface a vast and thorough exploration of characters, cultural context, sources, setting, staging, literary and legendary influences, themes of love, politics, and gender, and more. Images, illustrations, and a casting and doubling chart appear throughout the introduction and within the five appendices. The Arden Shakespearehas developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the play's foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.

Author Biography

Juliet Dusinberre is the author of the pioneering work in feminist criticism, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women, of Virginia Woolf's Renaissance: Woman Reader or Common Reader?, and of Alice to the Lighthouse: Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art. She is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and was its first M.C. Bradbrook Fellow in English.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
General editors' preface	xii
Preface	xvi
Introduction	1	(142)
A brief view of the play	1	(8)
Fictions of gender	9	(27)
Rosalind and the boy actor	9	(4)
Later Rosalinds	13	(13)
Celia	26	(5)
Orlando	31	(3)
Phoebe and Audrey	34	(2)
Date	36	(10)
The Forest of Arden	46	(26)
'Well, this is the Forest of Arden'	46	(6)
The hunt	52	(3)
Robin Hood and his merry men	55	(3)
Staging the Forest of Arden	58	(14)
Early foresters	72	(7)
The Earl of Essex	72	(5)
Thomas Morley	77	(2)
Realms of gold	79	(16)
Shakespeare and Thomas Lodge	80	(5)
Shakespeare and Sidney	85	(1)
Harington, Ariosto and Rabelais	86	(4)
Golden worlds	90	(5)
Pastoral	95	(18)
Genre: entertainments for Elizabeth	95	(2)
Corin and Touchstone	97	(3)
Borderlands: love and politics	100	(6)
A wise man and a fool: Jaques and Touchstone	106	(7)
A speaking picture': readers and painters	113	(7)
Text	120	(20)
The staying order	120	(5)
The Folio text: provenance and editorial practices	125	(11)
Text and performance	136	(4)
Epilogue: All the world's a stage'	140	(3)
AS YOU LIKE IT	143	(292)
Appendix 1: A court epilogue, Shrovetide 1599	349	(6)
Appendix 2: Casting and doubling	355	(13)
Appendix 3: Ben Jonson, As You Like It and the War of the Theatres'	368	(6)
Appendix 4: The Douai manuscript	374	(14)
Appendix 5: Political after-lives: Veracini's opera Rosalinda (1744) and Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest (1723)	388	(5)
Abbreviations and references	393	(42)
Abbreviations used in notes	393	(1)
Works by and partly by Shakespeare	394	(1)
Editions of Shakespeare collated	395	(3)
Other works cited	398	(33)
Manuscripts	398	(1)
Other works	399	(32)
Stage and film productions cited	431	(4)
Eighteenth-century productions	431	(1)
Nineteenth-century productions	431	(1)
Twentieth-century productions	432	(1)
Twenty-first-century productions	433	(2)
Index	435