As you like it
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As you like it
（Oxford world's classics）
Oxford University Press, 1998
- : pbk.
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 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. Part 2 "As You Like It - the text. Appendices: wit
- the songs.
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