As you like it
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness. Detailed annotations investigate the allusive and often bawdy language, enabling student, actor, and dire…
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- Full title :As you like it / edited by Alan Brissenden.
Summary
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness. Detailed annotations investigate the allusive and often bawdy language, enabling student, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full. - ;As You Like It is Shakespea.
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- Publication Date:1993.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1993.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1101993723, 9781101993729, 9780191732300, 0191732303, 9780191569562, 0191569569
- oclc:ocn607888481
- LC Classification:PR2803.A2
- Dewey Decimal:822.3/3
Table of Contents
""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Play's Date""; ""The Source""; ""Love""; ""Metamorphosis""; ""Doubleness""; ""Names and Places""; ""Pastoral""; ""The Play in Performance""; ""'Your very, very Rosalind'""; ""The Text""; ""Editorial Procedures""; ""Abbreviations and References""; ""AS YOU LIKE IT""; ""APPENDIX A: Wit""; ""APPENDIX B: The Songs""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
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