As You Like It - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141012277 ISBN 13: 9780141012278

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2005

Synopsis

As You Like It

About this title

About the Author:

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), a collection of sonnets and a variety of other poems.

Stanley Wells is the General Editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. He is Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham and Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Katherine Duncan-Jones is a Fellow of Somerville College, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and an Honorary Research Fellow of University College, London.
H. J. Oliver was Professor of English at the University New South Wales. He edited The Merry Wives of Windsor and Timon of Athens for the Arden Shakespeare and The Taming of the Shrew for the Oxford Shakespeare.

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 this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141012277
• ISBN 13: 9780141012278
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Oliver H. J., Duncan-Jones Katherine