As You Like It (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)

William Shakespeare

ISBN 10: 0451524608 / ISBN 13: 9780451524607

Published by Signet Classics, 1986

About this Item

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary. Cover aged, pages foxing at edges. 1963 printing. 256 pages.

Seller Inventory # 1598451

Bibliographic Details

• Title: As You Like It (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451524608
• ISBN 13: 9780451524607
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 600 grams
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Synopsis

This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, contrasts a country's world of envy and rivalry with a forest's world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own banished father, and the banished young man she loves. Romantic happiness triumphs, even as we laugh at the excesses of love, at the ways of court and countryside, indeed, at everything, in this masterpiece of comic writing,

Book Description

Shakespeare's As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This edition offers an account of what makes the play both innocent and dangerous, mapping the complexities of its setting (a no-man's-land related to both France and England) and giving an ample commentary on its language and an analytical account of performance.