As You Like It

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With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period."This will be the definitive edition of As You Like It for many years to come" - Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania Cover Title Page Copyright The Editor CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1 Young Man as a Shepherd (c. 1658–65) by Sir Peter Lely 2 Mrs Jordan, as Rosalind, by Hamilton (probably Gavin Hamilton, 1723–98): portrait of the eighteenth-century actress Dorothy Jordan as Rosalind 3 Orlando (Michael Redgrave) and Rosalind (Edith Evans) in Esmé Church's production at the Old Vic, London, 1936 4 Rosalind (Adrian Lester) in Declan Donnellan's Cheek by Jowl all-male production at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, 1991 5 Orlando (Martin Hutson), Rosalind (Nina Sosanya) and Celia (Naomi Frederick) in Gregory Thompson's production at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2003 6 Rosalind (Peggy Ashcroft) and Phoebe (Miriam Adams) in Harcourt Williams's production at the Old Vic, London, 1932 7 Rosalind (Juliet Stevenson) and Celia (Fiona Shaw) on entry into the Forest of Arden, in Adrian Noble's RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1985 8 'to ye Q. by ye players. 1598', from the commonplace book of Henry Stanford, Cambridge MS Dd.5.75 9 PRO LC 5/12, fols 212–13: plays granted to Thomas Killigrew for the new Theatre Royal at Drury Lane in 1669 10 Map showing the 'old forrest of Arden' from Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion (1612) 11 The Quintain: drawing (c. 1581) by Antoine Caron of the sport of jousting with a quintain, reflecting celebrations for the marriage in 1581 of the Duc de Joyeuse and Marie de Lorraine 12 Jaques and the Wounded Stag (1830) by John Constable, from a mezzotint by David Lucas 13 Mr King, in the Character of Touchstone: sketch by an unknown artist of the eighteenth-century comic actor Thomas King, showing a gesture to accompany the 'horns' speech at 3.3.44–58; facing the title page of a 1777 edition of As You Like It 14 Drawing (c. 1558) by Anthony van den Wyngaerde of Richmond Palace from the north-east 15 Detail from The Wedding Feast of Sir Henry Unton from the memorial portrait of Henry Unton (c. 1596) by an unknown artist, showing the players in a broken consort 16 Playbill for Macready's 1842 revival at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with Macready in the role of Jaques and incidental music from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony 17 The frontispiece to John Harington's 1591 translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso 18 Elizabeth I (1572), Nicholas Hilliard's earliest likeness of the queen, shown wearing her colours of black and white 19 Young Man among Roses (c. 1587) by Nicholas Hilliard, displaying the queen's emblem of the eglantine or sweet-brier (wild rose) and her colours of black and white 20 Rosalind (Helena Modjeska). The Polish émigrée actress first played Rosalind in New York at Booth's Theatre in 1882, and performed the role many subsequent times until 1898 21 Page 202 from Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623), showing the hunting song in 4.2, Rosalind's reception of Phoebe's love-letter to Ganymede, and the return of Oliver 22 'Drammatis Personae' from 'As You Like It', Bm de Douai, Ms 787 Anglais, Douai (1694–5), the earliest extant 'List of Roles' for the play General Editors' Preface The Text Commentary and Textual Notes Introduction Preface Introduction A brief view of the play Fictions of gender Rosalind and the boy actor Later Rosalinds Celia Orlando Phoebe and Audrey Date The Forest of Arden 'Well, this is the Forest of Arden' The hunt Robin Hood and his merry men Staging the Forest of Arden Early foresters The Earl of Essex Thomas Morley Realms of gold Shakespeare and Thomas Lodge Shakespeare and Sidney Harington, Ariosto and Rabelais Golden worlds Pastoral Genre: entertainments for Elizabeth Corin and Touchstone Borderlands: love and politics A wise man and a fool: Jaques and Touchstone 'A speaking picture': readers and painters Text The staying order The Folio text: provenance and editorial practices Text and performance Epilogue: 'All the world's a stage' AS YOU LIKE IT List of Roles Act 1 1 2 3 Act 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Act 3 1 2 3 4 5 Act 4 1 2 3 Act 5 1 2 3 4 Epilogue Appendix 1: A court epilogue, Shrovetide 1599 Appendix 2: Casting and doubling Appendix 3: Ben Jonson, As You Like It and the 'War of the Theatres' Appendix 4: The Douai manuscript Appendix 5: Political after-lives: Veracini's opera Rosalinda (1744) and Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest (1723) Abbreviations and references Abbreviations Abbreviations used in notes Works by and partly by Shakespeare References Editions of Shakespeare collated Other works cited Manuscripts Other works Stage and film productions cited Eighteenth-century productions Nineteenth-century productions Twentieth-century productions Twenty-first-century productions Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z