As You Like It (Collins Classics) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007902395 ISBN 13: 9780007902392

Publisher: William Collins, 2011

Synopsis

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

‘All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.’

Featuring Rosalind, one of Shakespeare’s most likeable and strong female protagonists, As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity, love, exile and artifice. Banished from the court by her uncle, Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin Celia and her jester, joining her already exiled father, and disguising herself as a boy. In the guise of a young man, she instructs her would-be lover Orlando in the ways of love and in doing so allows Shakespeare to explore the dynamics of the city and the country as well as the sexual politics of the time.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Both a witty satire of literary cliche and a tender meditation on the varieties of love, As You Like It continues to be one of Shakespeare's most beloved and widely performed comedies. In the introduction to this new edition, David Bevington traces the complex relationships between the characters in the play, and explores the history of its criticism from Samuel Johnson to the twenty-first century.Illustrations and extended discussions of myth and folklore alluded to in the play are interleaved with the text, and appendices provide excerpts from key sources for the play.

About the Author:

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest playwright the world has seen. He produced an astonishing amount of work; 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. He died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0007902395
• ISBN 13: 9780007902392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160