Synopses & Reviews
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
Review
"This will be the definitive edition of As You Like It for many years to come" - Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania
Synopsis
The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.
Synopsis
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of As You Like It provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations General editors preface 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 - Harrington, 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 worlds a stage AS YOU LIKE IT 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: Veracinis opera Rosalinda (1744) and Charles Johnsons Love in a Forest (1723)