As You Like It

by Robert Shaughnessy

Book Overview

This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity. Powered by Shakespeare's greatest female comic role, the play invites us into a deeply English woodland that has also been richly imagined as a space of dreams. The study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152614350X
• ISBN13: 9781526143501
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"