As You Like It (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)

by William Shakespeare, Roma Gill

Overview

This edition of As You LIke It is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes, allowing students to master Shakespeare's work.

About the Series:
Newly redesigned and easier to read, each play in the Oxford School Shakespeare series includes the complete and unabridged text, detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198328698
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/23/2009
Series:	Oxford School Shakespeare Series
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	961,045
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Roma Gill, the series editor, has taught Shakespeare at all levels. She has acted in and directed Shakespeare's plays, and has lectured on Shakespeare all over the world.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

	Shakespeare: An Overview	vii
	Biographical Sketch	vii
	A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians	xi
	The Shakespeare Canon	xv
	Shakespeare's English	xviii
	Shakespeare's Theater	xxvi
	A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female Roles	xxxiii
	Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Costumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry	xxxvi
	The Play Text as a Collaboration	xliii
	Editing Texts	xlix
	Shakespeare on the Stage	liv
	Introduction	lxiii
	As You Like It	1
	Textual Note	105
	The Source of As You Like It	107
	Selections from Rosalynde	110
	Commentaries
	From Shakespeare and the Actors	147
	"As You Like It"	161
	From Sexual Politics and Social Structure in As You Like It	180
	Cross-dressing in As You Like It	196
	As You Like It on Stage and Screen	200
	Suggested References	214