As You Like It (Bantam Classic) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553212907 ISBN 13: 9780553212907

Publisher: Bantam Classics, 1988

Synopsis

This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare’s loveliest poetry, contrasts a court’s world of envy and rivalry with a forest’s world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own banished father, and the banished young man she loves. Romantic happiness triumphs, even as we laugh at the excesses of love, at the ways of court and countryside, indeed, at everything, in this masterpiece of comic writing.

Each Edition Includes:
· Comprehensive explanatory notes
· Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship
· Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English
· Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories
· An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography

About this title

Book Description:

Shakespeare's As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. This edition offers an account of what makes the play both innocent and dangerous, mapping the complexities of its setting (a no-man's-land related to both France and England) and giving an ample commentary on its language and an analytical account of performance.

From the Back Cover:

Those who look to comedy for amusement, laughter, a play of the mind, here also find Shakespeare's plenty.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0553212907
• ISBN 13: 9780553212907
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Bevington David, Kastan David Scott