Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section on recent critical interpretations, including sections on ecocriticism, peace studies, and myths of gender, on recent as well as past stage productions and films of the play, as well as fresh illustrations. An appendix on an early court performance in 1599, commentary on the play's language, the book trade, and the discursive cultures of its time, as well as an updated reading list are also included.
Author(s): William Shakespeare
Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 275
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
1 The jester Tom Skelton
2 'The Wheel of Life which is called Fortune', c. 1460
3 Hymen, 1580
4 Lucy Harrington Countess of Bedford attired for Jonson's Hymenaei, (1606)
5 Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, c. 1630
6 The Horn Dance: production by Mark Brickman, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 1991
7 Mrs Abington as Rosalind
8 Playbill for a revival at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1798
9 'What shall he have that killed the deer?': Stratford-upon-Avon, 1879
10 Vanessa Redgrave (Rosalind), Rosalind Knight (Celia), Colin Blakely (Touchstone): Stratford-upon-Avon, 1961
11 Eileen Atkins (Rosalind), David Suchet (Orlando): Stratford-upon-Avon, 1973
12 The final scene: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1977
13 Colin Douglas (Corin), Juliet Stevenson (Rosalind), Fiona Shaw (Celia): Stratford-upon-Avon, 1985
14 Patrick Toomey (Orlando) and Adrian Lester (Rosalind): Cheek by Jowl, 1991–5
15 Anastasia Hille (Rosalind): Shakespeare's Globe, 1998
Preface
Abbreviations and Conventions
1. Shakespeare's works
2. Other works cited and general references
Introduction
Journeys
Plays within the play
Theatrical genres
Pastoral
Counter-pastoral
The condition of the country
Politics
'Between you and the women the play may please'
Gender
Nuptials
Stage history
Screen Versions
Date and occasion
Sources
Note on the Text
List of Characters
AS YOU LIKE IT
Act 1
1
2
3
Act 2
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Act 3
1
2
3
4
5
6
Act 4
1
2
3
Act 5
1
2
3
4
Epilogue
Textual Analysis
Appendixes
1 Extracts from Shakespeare's principal source, Lodge's Rosalind
The misogyny of Lodge's Sir John of Bordeaux
The miseries of Rosader
The wrestling
Alinda's comfort to perplexed Rosalind
Rosalind's response to Montanus' poem
The shepherd's lot
Adam Spencer's speech
Rosalind's description
Mock marriage by Aliena
The episode of the lion
Rosader's Meditation
Resolution
2 The songs
Reading List
