as you like it

A guide to Shakespeare's "As You Like It, " discussing the textual history of the play, its contexts and sources, dramatic structure, and themes, featuring a selection of critical response, and examining the play in performance.

Presents summaries and commentaries, background on the author, essay topics, review questions, and other study tools for "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare.

Discusses the plot, characters, and historical background of the Shakespeare play.

Contains the text of the play, information about Shakespeare and his theater, bibliography, key to famous lines and phrases, and explanatory notes.

Contains an introduction to the play, the text of the play, and notes.

A guide to Shakespeare's "As You Like It," a comedy of love and redemption in exile, featuring critical essays written about the play since the seventeenth century, and including an introduction, plot summary, character list, and selection of key passages.

Presents an examination of the life of William Shakespeare through the prism of one year, 1599, describing what he reads and writes, what he sees, and how he creates four famous plays.

Presents the complete text of Shakespeare's comedy of love and redemption in exile, and includes explanations of difficult words and passages, a plot synopsis, scene summaries, and character notes, as well as a brief biography of Shakespeare, and photographs from various performances.