As You Like It (Signet Classics) {New Revised Edition}

William Shakespeare (Author); Sylvan Barnet (General Editor); William Albert Gilman (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0451524608 / ISBN 13: 9780451524607

Published by A Signet Classic/Signet Books/From The New American Library/A Division of Penguin Books, Inc., New York, 1986

About this Item

250 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on top and bottom edge. Light foxing on page edges.

Seller Inventory # 2iiiAb0024b

Bibliographic Details

• Title: As You Like It (Signet Classics) {New Revised Edition}
• Publisher: A Signet Classic/Signet Books/From The New American Library/A Division of Penguin Books, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451524608
• ISBN 13: 9780451524607
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: New Revised Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • English & British Studies, Literature, History
  • Theatre, Plays, Drama, Screenplays, Acting, etc.
  • Theatre, Classical Theatre, Theatrical Studies

About this title

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.