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Book The Oxford Shakespeare  As You Like It

Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare As You Like It written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - now a fellow exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her.

Book As You Like it

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780140714715
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book As You Like it written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic one-volume Shakespeare, including all the plays and poems, now completely revised and updated. The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold five million copies. Now Penguin is proud to offer this fully revised new hardcover edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Since the series debuted more than forty years ago, developments in scholarship have revolutionized our understanding of William Shakespeare, his time, and his works. With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date research and debate, this revised edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare will be the premier choice for students, professors, and general readers for decades to come. The general editors of the series-world-renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA - devoted seven years to preparing introductions and notes with a team of eminent scholars to the forty volumes of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Now, the new series is complete and available in one lavish and complete edition. * *Authoritative and meticulously researched texts *Illuminating new introductions and notes by distinguished authors *Essays on Shakespeare's life, the theatrical world of his time, and the selection of texts *A handsome new design inside and out * Deluxe packaging, including a full-linen case, ribbon marker, Smyth-sewn binding, printed endpapers, acid-free paper, and illustrations throughout *Photos and drawings reflecting Shakespeare's theatrical legacy *Line numbers marking every tenth line and footnote references *Both glossorial and explanatory notes appearing conveniently at the foot of the page

Book As You Like It

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-04-11
  • ISBN : 0192689738
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book As You Like It written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We that are true lovers run into strange capers.' Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It's capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to the play, upholding it as a crowning expression of the Elizabethan Renaissance while underscoring its appeal to twenty-first century readers as Shakespeare's most intrepid exploration of gender, sexuality, and the environment. Its double-cross-dressed heroine dominates the plot (and their love interest Orlando) to conduct a masterclass in gender fluidity. The melancholic Jaques unmasks the fundamental theatricality of existence and questions humanity's prerogative to displace and harm other species. Through the clown Touchstone, the comedy tests the possibility that we might laugh ourselves wise, especially when we learn to laugh at ourselves. In the Forest of Arden, we encounter Shakespeare's most beguiling vision of the natural world as a realm of serenity and harmony, while brushing up against the briars that puncture our fantasies of the simple life. The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book As You Like It  2009 Edition

Download or read book As You Like It 2009 Edition written by William Shakespeare and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As You Like It is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Book As You Like It

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-08-23
  • ISBN : 1439116989
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book As You Like It written by William Shakespeare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too. Recent scholars have also grounded the play in the issues of its time. These include primogeniture, passing property from a father to his oldest son. As You Like It depicts intense conflict between brothers, exposing the human suffering that primogeniture entails. Another perspective concerns crossdressing. Most of Orlando’s courtship of Rosalind takes place while Rosalind is disguised as a man, “Ganymede.” At her urging, Orlando pretends that Ganymede is his beloved Rosalind. But as the epilogue reveals, the sixteenth-century actor playing Rosalind was male, following the practice of the time. In other words, a boy played a girl playing a boy pretending to be a girl. The authoritative edition of As You Like It from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include: · The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference · Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

Book As You Like It  The Oxford Shakespeare

Download or read book As You Like It The Oxford Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness. Detailed annotations investigate the allusive and often bawdy language, enabling student, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book The Oxford Shakespeare  As You Like It

Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare As You Like It written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book As You Like it

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book As You Like it written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare s As You Like it

Download or read book Shakespeare s As You Like it written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book As You Like it

Download or read book As You Like it written by Penny Gay and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best loved of Shakespeare's 'middle comedies', As You Like It has rarely been out of the theatrical repertoire. Centering on the cross-dressed figure of Rosalind, the play both celebrates and questions the state of being in love. This study attempts to recreate the Elizabethan audience's experience of the play - its awareness of issues that have been elided in subsequent, simply 'romantic' readings. Using an innovative theory of the significance of the Globe's stage space, Penny Gay examines the play's presentation of issues of power, sexuality, gender and genre.

Book The New Oxford Shakespeare

Download or read book The New Oxford Shakespeare written by Gary Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Authorship Companion: Cutting-edge research in attribution studies; A new perspective on the dating of Shakespeare's plays, and on his dramatic collaborations; Combines the work of senior scholars with exciting new voices; Explores the latest developments in the understanding of Shakespeare's style and methods for detecting and describing it; Covers the entire breadth of Shakespeare's writing, across the plays and the poems; A record of all early documents relevant to authorship and chronology; A survey and synthesis of past scholarship to 2016; Individual case studies combined with broader analysis of theories and methods."--Publisher's description.

Book As You Like It

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08-29
  • ISBN : 9781689317689
  • Pages : 101 pages

Download or read book As You Like It written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too.

Book This Is Shakespeare

Download or read book This Is Shakespeare written by Emma Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.

Book As You Like It   William Shakespeare

Download or read book As You Like It William Shakespeare written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays about Shakespeare's comedic play As you like it, addressing its structure, themes, and subject matter.

Book As You Like it

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book As You Like it written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book AS YOU LIKE IT  Spanish Edition

Download or read book AS YOU LIKE IT Spanish Edition written by William Shakespeare and published by epubli. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Como gustéis es una comedia pastoral de William Shakespeare que se cree que fue escrita en 1599 y publicada por primera vez en el Primer Folio en 1623. La primera representación de la obra es incierta, aunque se ha sugerido como posibilidad una representación en Wilton House en 1603. Los lectores y el público llevan mucho tiempo saludando con deleite As You Like It. Sus personajes son brillantes conversadores, entre ellos las princesas Rosalinda y Celia y su bufón, Touchstone. Poco después de que Rosalinda y Orlando se conozcan y se enamoren, las princesas y Touchstone se exilian al bosque de Arden, donde encuentran nuevos compañeros de conversación. El duque Federico, hermano menor del duque padre, ha derrocado a su hermano y le ha obligado a vivir sin hogar en el bosque con sus cortesanos, entre ellos el cínico Jaques. Orlando, cuyo hermano mayor, Oliver, tramó su muerte, también ha huido allí.

Book As You Like It

Download or read book As You Like It written by William Shakespeare and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the enchanting world of "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare, a timeless comedy that celebrates the complexities of love, identity, and the human spirit. Follow the captivating adventures of Rosalind, Orlando, and a colorful cast of characters as they journey through the Forest of Arden in search of love and self-discovery. With its delightful blend of wit, romance, and mistaken identity, "As You Like It" invites readers to revel in the joyous chaos of Shakespearean comedy. Explore themes of love, friendship, and the transformative power of nature as Shakespeare weaves together a tapestry of laughter and longing. From the banter of the lovelorn courtiers to the wisdom of the exiled Duke, each character adds depth and nuance to the vibrant tapestry of the play. Through sparkling dialogue and memorable soliloquies, Shakespeare offers profound insights into the human condition, inviting readers to ponder the nature of love and the pursuit of happiness. With its timeless appeal and universal themes, "As You Like It" continues to captivate audiences of all ages and backgrounds. The overall tone of the play is one of mirth and celebration, as Shakespeare celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring power of love. His lyrical language and vivid imagery transport readers to a world of whimsy and wonder, where anything is possible. Critically acclaimed for its wit, charm, and memorable characters, "As You Like It" has earned its place as one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Its enduring popularity speaks to its universal appeal and timeless relevance. Whether you're a lifelong fan of Shakespeare or discovering his work for the first time, "As You Like It" promises to delight and entertain. Don't miss your chance to experience the magic of Shakespearean comedy. Grab your copy now and immerse yourself in the laughter and romance of "As You Like It."