As You Like it (Audio book)

All the world's a stage...
- Jaques

The complete play in five acts. A Shakespeare Recording Society Production.
As You Like It is quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts and reconciliation's, and all within the atmospheric confines of the enchanted Forest of Arden. As the title suggests, As You Like It is a play in which everyone gets their way, where sinners are redeemed and where love holds sway over all. And because it is Shakespeare, even so light a comedy contains a wealth of keen observations about humanity in general, and in particular about the age-old tension between so-called civilized society and the state of nature from which it evolved. No less poetically-accomplished than Shakespeare's' more serious works, As You Like It is a stimulating literary pleasure from start to finish.

About the author

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Vanessa Redgrave (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Audio
• Released: 17.01.1997
• EAN: 9780694516650
• ISBN: 978-0-694-51665-0
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 124 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 108 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; France, Poetry, Italy, Ireland, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Performing arts: comedy, Anthologies: general, Comedy and stand-up, Film scripts and screenplays, Television screenplays, scripts and performances, Classic and pre-20th century plays, DRAMA: American / General, DRAMA: Shakespeare, DRAMA: Women Authors, PERFORMING ARTS: Theater / General, POETRY: American / General, DRAMA: European / Italian, DRAMA: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, DRAMA: European / French, POETRY: European / Italian, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Poetry by form: Haiku