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As You Like It (1922)

by William Shakespeare

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I fear I'm really not a Shakespeare fan: I can never 'get into' his plays. I certainly didn't 'get into' As You Like It. Studying it, so perhaps I'll come to appreciate it more. ( )
  shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 |
Had to read this in college so I could act the part of the bad brother Oliver in the College Play, and learned to enjoy, if not love, the bearded Bard. ( )
  Chris.Graham | Apr 5, 2013 |
It was quite quite cute. It was a bit convenient that the exiled duke randomly got his kingdom back in the end... and it was a little disturbing that Orlando didn't mind that Rosalind had been tricking him by pretending to be a boy for half the book.... but whatever... It was a fun, silly play.

I'm now working on watching the different productions of the play:

I watched the 1936 Laurence Olivier and Elisabeth Bergner version. It was quite cute. (Or rather Laurence Olivier was quite cute... haha...) They cut quite a bit out of it, but nothing that was terribly important... (Available on the Netflix website.)

The 1978 Helen Mirren version was cool. I was watching and going, "Who IS that? She looks REALLY REALLY familiar!" Yep. Elinor from Inkheart. She was so young!! This version was better than the older... the acting was better and the text was more complete. (Available on the Netflix website.)

UPDATE: I watched the 2006 Bryce Dallas Howard, Romola Garai, Kevin Kline, Alfred Molina, Richard Briers version version today. LOVED IT. It was fantastic! I thought the Japanese setting, clothing, landscape, etc. was cool. (Sumos? SWEET!) Plus, the acting was great... I loved the way that they interpreted and spoke the lines. Great great great. ( )
  saraferrell | Apr 3, 2013 |
With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy Jacques, this book speaks directly to the twenty-first century. It connects the play to the Elizabethan court and its dynamic queen and demonstrates that the play's vital roots in its own time give it new life in ours.
  Roger_Scoppie | Apr 3, 2013 |
As You Like It has long been admired as one of Shakespeare's most exuberant early comedies, complete with one of the Bard's funniest and toughest heroines, Rosalind. Based on Thomas Lodge's Elizabethan novel Rosalynde, As You Like It follows the discontented Orlando as he is exiled from the tyrannical French court of Duke Frederick. By chance Frederick also banishes Rosalind, daughter of the usurped Duke Senior. The play then moves to the Forest of Arden, where chaos and misrule ensue, as Rosalind cross dresses "all points like a man", disguised as the saucy Ganymede and encourages the naive Orlando to "woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humour". Meanwhile her clown Touchstone causes hilarity and havoc amongst the exiled lords and the pastoral inhabitants of the forest. The play concludes with Rosalind's extraordinary "unmasking" Epilogue addressed to the audience, where she offers to "kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me". As You Like It remains one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, yet it is also appreciated by critics for its complex exploration of cross dressing and sexual politics, and its interest in relations between the country and the city. --Jerry Brotton
  Roger_Scoppie | Apr 3, 2013 |
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William Shakespeareprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Brissenden, AlanEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Burchell, S.C.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Church. EsmeEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cunliffe, JohnEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cunliffe, John WilliamEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Damon, Lindsay ToddEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dolan, Frances E.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness.
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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
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"As You Like It, Shakespeare's most lighthearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays, was probably written in 1599 or 1600, though it was not printed until the First Folio of 1623. As its witty heroine is Shakespeare's longest female role, the play's performance history is marked by notable Rosalinds, from Hannah Pritchard and Margaret Woffington (giving rival performances in 1741), to Helen Faucit, Ada Rehan, Peggy Ashcroft, Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Ronald Pickup (in an all-male production of 1967), Juliet Stevenson, and many others." "In his introduction to this new edition Alan Brissenden suggests reasons for its delayed publication and discusses in detail how productions have changed radically over the years. Shakespeare's use of his sources, his handling of the themes of love, doubleness, and pastoral are also dealt with, as well as the significance of boys playing women's parts on the Elizabethan stage. Detailed annotations explain allusions, puns, and difficult passages, enabling student, reader, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full. There are illustrations, and appendices on 'wit' and the songs, for which the earliest known music is printed."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)

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