As You Like It: The Oxford Shakespeareas You Like It

With its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted and most performed comedy. This edition includes numerous illustrations of productions and reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. It also examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness, and provides detailed annotations investigating the play's allusive and often bawdy language.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/15/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780199536153
ISBN10: 0199536155
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Shakespeare

About the Author

Alan Brissenden is Reader in English, University of Adelaide, Australia.