With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period."This will be the definitive edition of As You Like It for many years to come" - Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania
Author(s): William Shakespeare
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 472
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
The Editor
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
1 Young Man as a Shepherd (c. 1658–65) by Sir Peter Lely
2 Mrs Jordan, as Rosalind, by Hamilton (probably Gavin Hamilton, 1723–98): portrait of the eighteenth-century actress Dorothy Jordan as Rosalind
3 Orlando (Michael Redgrave) and Rosalind (Edith Evans) in Esmé Church's production at the Old Vic, London, 1936
4 Rosalind (Adrian Lester) in Declan Donnellan's Cheek by Jowl all-male production at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, 1991
5 Orlando (Martin Hutson), Rosalind (Nina Sosanya) and Celia (Naomi Frederick) in Gregory Thompson's production at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2003
6 Rosalind (Peggy Ashcroft) and Phoebe (Miriam Adams) in Harcourt Williams's production at the Old Vic, London, 1932
7 Rosalind (Juliet Stevenson) and Celia (Fiona Shaw) on entry into the Forest of Arden, in Adrian Noble's RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1985
8 'to ye Q. by ye players. 1598', from the commonplace book of Henry Stanford, Cambridge MS Dd.5.75
9 PRO LC 5/12, fols 212–13: plays granted to Thomas Killigrew for the new Theatre Royal at Drury Lane in 1669
10 Map showing the 'old forrest of Arden' from Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion (1612)
11 The Quintain: drawing (c. 1581) by Antoine Caron of the sport of jousting with a quintain, reflecting celebrations for the marriage in 1581 of the Duc de Joyeuse and Marie de Lorraine
12 Jaques and the Wounded Stag (1830) by John Constable, from a mezzotint by David Lucas
13 Mr King, in the Character of Touchstone: sketch by an unknown artist of the eighteenth-century comic actor Thomas King, showing a gesture to accompany the 'horns' speech at 3.3.44–58; facing the title page of a 1777 edition of As You Like It
14 Drawing (c. 1558) by Anthony van den Wyngaerde of Richmond Palace from the north-east
15 Detail from The Wedding Feast of Sir Henry Unton from the memorial portrait of Henry Unton (c. 1596) by an unknown artist, showing the players in a broken consort
16 Playbill for Macready's 1842 revival at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with Macready in the role of Jaques and incidental music from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
17 The frontispiece to John Harington's 1591 translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
18 Elizabeth I (1572), Nicholas Hilliard's earliest likeness of the queen, shown wearing her colours of black and white
19 Young Man among Roses (c. 1587) by Nicholas Hilliard, displaying the queen's emblem of the eglantine or sweet-brier (wild rose) and her colours of black and white
20 Rosalind (Helena Modjeska). The Polish émigrée actress first played Rosalind in New York at Booth's Theatre in 1882, and performed the role many subsequent times until 1898
21 Page 202 from Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623), showing the hunting song in 4.2, Rosalind's reception of Phoebe's love-letter to Ganymede, and the return of Oliver
22 'Drammatis Personae' from 'As You Like It', Bm de Douai, Ms 787 Anglais, Douai (1694–5), the earliest extant 'List of Roles' for the play
General Editors' Preface
The Text
Commentary and Textual Notes
Introduction
Preface
Introduction
A brief view of the play
Fictions of gender
Rosalind and the boy actor
Later Rosalinds
Celia
Orlando
Phoebe and Audrey
Date
The Forest of Arden
'Well, this is the Forest of Arden'
The hunt
Robin Hood and his merry men
Staging the Forest of Arden
Early foresters
The Earl of Essex
Thomas Morley
Realms of gold
Shakespeare and Thomas Lodge
Shakespeare and Sidney
Harington, Ariosto and Rabelais
Golden worlds
Pastoral
Genre: entertainments for Elizabeth
Corin and Touchstone
Borderlands: love and politics
A wise man and a fool: Jaques and Touchstone
'A speaking picture': readers and painters
Text
The staying order
The Folio text: provenance and editorial practices
Text and performance
Epilogue: 'All the world's a stage'
AS YOU LIKE IT
List of Roles
Act 1
1
2
3
Act 2
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Act 3
1
2
3
4
5
Act 4
1
2
3
Act 5
1
2
3
4
Epilogue
Appendix 1: A court epilogue, Shrovetide 1599
Appendix 2: Casting and doubling
Appendix 3: Ben Jonson, As You Like It and the 'War of the Theatres'
Appendix 4: The Douai manuscript
Appendix 5: Political after-lives: Veracini's opera Rosalinda (1744) and Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest (1723)
Abbreviations and references
Abbreviations
Abbreviations used in notes
Works by and partly by Shakespeare
References
Editions of Shakespeare collated
Other works cited
Manuscripts
Other works
Stage and film productions cited
Eighteenth-century productions
Nineteenth-century productions
Twentieth-century productions
Twenty-first-century productions
Index
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