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As You Like It (No Fear Shakespeare)
As You Like It (No Fear Shakespeare)
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Author: William Shakespeare Edited by: Sparknotes Editors Publisher: SparkNotes Series: No Fear Shakespeare Format: Softcover # of Pages: 256 Pub. Date: 2004 ISBN-10: 1411401042 ISBN-13: 9781411401044
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About
the Play:
William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It is a
joyful story that features some of Shakespeare's most beloved
characters and well-known speeches. Unable to act on their feelings
and forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, lovers Rosalind and
Orlando become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and
mistaken identity. As You Like It subverts the traditional
rules of romance. Gender roles, nature and politics are confused in a
play that reflects on how bewildering yet utterly pleasurable life
can be.
Read William Shakespeare's great comedy As You Like It
in all its brilliance and actually understand what it means. No
Fear Shakespeare gives you Shakespeare's complete text of As
You Like It on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an
easy-to-understand modern English on the right, with marginal notes
and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Shakespeare side-by-side in plain English. Each No Fear
Shakespeare contains:
• The complete text of the
original play
• A line-by-line translation that puts
Shakespeare into the kind of English people actually speak today
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A complete list of characters with descriptions
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Plenty of helpful commentary
William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It is
believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the
First Folio in 1623.
What people say:
"In As You Like It, we get Shakespeare the pure poet and philosopher. It is an elegant, sometimes melancholy, often comic meditation on young love. Here the battle of the sexes is treated as a giddy contest, not a knockdown war of wills." — Los Angeles Times
About the Playwright:
Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, William
Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and
is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen
Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and
numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in
histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare's most famous
works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,
Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of
the Shrew, and As You Like It. Like many of his
contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare
began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner
of Lord Chamberlain's Men, a popular dramatic company of his
day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London. Extremely
popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare's works continue to
resonate more than three hundred years after his death. His plays are
performed more often than any other playwright's, have been
translated into every major language in the world, and are studied
widely by scholars and students.
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