Author:
Dusinberre, Juliet.
Imprint:London: Arden Shakespeare, c2006.
Descriptionxviii, 449 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note:General editors' preface -- Preface -- Introduction. A brief view of the play -- Fictions of gender : Rosalind and the boy actor ; Later Rosalinds ; Celia ; Orlando ; Phoebe and Audrey -- Date -- The Forest of Arden : 'Well, this is the Forest of Arden' ; The hunt ; Robin Hood and his merry men ; Staging the Forest of Arden -- Early foresters : The Earl of Essex ; Thomas Morley -- Realms of gold : Shakespeare and Thomas Lodge ; Shakespeare and Sidney ; Harington, Ariosto and Rabelais ; Golden worlds -- Pastoral : Genre - entertainments for Elizabeth ; Corin and Touchstone ; Borderlands - love and politics ; A wise man and a fool - Jaques and Touchstone ; 'A speaking picture' - readers and painters -- Text : The staying order ; The Folio text: provenance and editorial practices ; Text and performance -- Epilogue:'All the world's a stage' -- AS YOU LIKE IT -- App. 1. A court epilogue, Shrovetide 1599 -- App. 2. Casting and doubling -- App. 3. Ben Jonson, As You Like It and the 'War of the Theatres' -- App. 4. The Douai manuscript -- App. 5. Political after-lives : Veracini's opera Rosalinda (1744) and Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest (1723) -- Abbreviations and references : Abbreviations used in notes ; Works by and partly by Shakespeare ; Editions of Shakespeare collated ; Other works cited ; Manuscripts ; Other works ; Stage and film productions cited ; Eighteenth-century productions ; Nineteenth-century productions ; Twentieth-century productions ; Twenty-first-century productions ; Index.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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