As You Like It

List of contents

Introduction; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendixes; 1. An early court performance?; 2. Extracts from Shakespeare's principal source, Lodge's Rosalind; 3. The songs; Reading list.

Summary

Michael Hattaway's introduction to this bestselling edition accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section on recent critical interpretations and on recent as well as past stage productions and films of the play, as well as fresh illustrations.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Michael Hattaway (Editor), Michael (University of Sheffield) Hattaway (Editor), Hattaway Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108838979
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83897-9
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean