As You Like it
As You Like It by William Shakespeare is a reprint edition published by Wordsworth Editions in 1993, featuring 102 pages in English. This work is recognized as one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, blending elements of lyricism, melancholy, satire, and absurdity. The plot unfolds with a mix of love-lorn characters, a resourceful heroine in disguise, and themes of sexual ambiguity, culminating in a series of marriages that reflect the complexities of love and relationships.
Readers will find that this edition includes an exclusive introduction and notes by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The play’s ironic blend of pastoral artifice and romantic ardor has contributed to its enduring popularity in the theatre. As You Like It is part of the Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, which is utilized in workshops by the Royal Shakespeare Company, ensuring that this edition is both accessible and enriched for contemporary audiences.
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This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, sceptical philosophising, and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre. A recent production was deemed ‘fresh, funny, sexy and, when it matters, deeply touching’. As You Like It is part of the Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, used in the workshops of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Every volume in the series has been newly edited by Cedric Watts, described by Edward Said as ‘a man for whom the enjoyment and enrichment of friends and students is the main consideration in what he does’.
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