As You Like It (Oxford Shakespeare Series)

by William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (Editor)

Overview

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.

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199536153
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2008
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	436,638
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

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

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom