As You Like It

Product Description

From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeares journey into the Forest of Arden THIS EDITION
Includes:: * An introduction to As You Like It by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play -- with clear & authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis & key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeares career & the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of As You Like It in performance recommends film versions takes a detailed look at specific productions &

Includes:: interviews with two leading directors & a well-known Shakespearean actor
- Dominic Cooke Michael Boyd & Naomi Frederick
- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented & made our contemporary four centuries after his death.