As You Like ItThis wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare’s loveliest poetry, contrasts a court’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. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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actors Adam Spencer Aliena Alinda AMIENS Audrey banished BEAU beauty boar spear brother Charles Charles Dickens clown CORIN court D. H. Lawrence daughter deer desire disguise doth DUKE FREDERICK DUKE SENIOR Edith Wharton Enter Orlando Enter Rosalind Exeunt exile Exit eyes fair faith father favor film folly fool Forest of Arden Fortune Fyodor Dostoevsky Gamelyn Ganymede gentle gentleman Gerismond give grace hast hath heart hither honor horns humor Jane Austen JAQUES John of Bordeaux King ladies live look lord lover marriage married melancholy mistress Montanus nature OLIVER ORLANDO ORLANDO ROSALIND passion pastoral Phoebe play play's pray prithee Robin Hood Rosader ROSALIND ROSALIND Nay ROSALIND Oh Saladyne satire Shakespeare shalt shepherd sighed Silvius song sonnets speak sweet tell theater thee thou art thought Torismond TOUCHSTONE tree Twelfth Night unto virtue William withal woman word wrestling young youth