Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too.
This edition provides a detailed history of the play in production, both on stage and on screen.
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.
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This new edition of As You Like It is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout.
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As You Like It is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.
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Unlock the more straightforward side of As You Like It with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This book is a modern translation of "As You Like It." The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text.