As you like it
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As you like it
(The new Cambridge Shakespeare)
Cambridge University Press, 2009
Updated ed
- : hardback
- : pbk
Available at 59 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 240)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. In his Introduction to this second edition of As You Like It, its editor, Michael Hattaway accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. In performance it can appear bright or sombre: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors, or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This edition includes a new section on recent critical interpretations and dramatic productions of the play as well as an appendix on an early court performance of As You Like It in 1599. Commentary on the play's language, an updated reading list and an account of the play in performance are also included.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 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
- Sources
- Date and occasion
- Stage history
- Screen versions
- Recent critical and stage interpretations: Contexts
- Recent stage history
- A screen version
- Note on the text
- List of characters
- The Play
- Textual analysis
- Appendix 1. An early court performance?
- Appendix 2. Extracts from Shakespeare's principal source, Lodge's Rosalind
- Appendix 3. The songs
- Reading list.
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