As You Like It

Includes a new section on recent critical interpretations, stage productions and films of the play, as well as fresh illustrations.

William Shakespeare (Author), Michael Hattaway (Edited by)

9781108838979, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 April 2021

262 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.53 kg

Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section on recent critical interpretations, including sections on ecocriticism, peace studies, and myths of gender, on recent as well as past stage productions and films of the play, as well as fresh illustrations. An appendix on an early court performance in 1599, commentary on the play's language, the book trade, and the discursive cultures of its time, as well as an updated reading list are also included.

Introduction
Note on the text
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Appendixes
1. An early court performance?
2. Extracts from Shakespeare's principal source, Lodge's Rosalind
3. The songs
Reading list.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Shakespeare plays [DDS], Plays, playscripts [DD], Literature & literary studies [D]