About this title: One of Shakespeare's early plays, written in 1598 or 1599, AS YOU LIKE IT is in many ways a typical Elizabethan romantic comedy, but it is also a satire in which Shakespeare ridicules many of the courtly-love conventions that were still current in his day: love as a disease, for example, and the lover as slave to his imperious mistress. In AS YOU LIKE IT, when these notions rear their heads, they are presented as silly absurdities. Orlando is in thrall to Rosalind, the simple shepherd Silvius is put through mental tortures by Phoebe--but ridiculing such formulaic excesses ("Men have died from ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of London P
Date Published: 1959
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 175p., 20 cm. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of London P
Date Published: 1959
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 175p., 20 cm. read more
Edition: New rev. ed.
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New American Library, New York
Date Published: 1987
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 250p. Previous ed. : 1963. read more
"This is the wrong version, but oh well. Just to be clear, I read the GRAPHIC novel - not this version.
I was under the impression that ALL Shakespeare's work ended in tragedy, and I was surprised by this ending where every worked out.
Please note that the fact a girl (Rosilund) dressed as a man was probably horribly scandalous in Shakespeare's time. I'm not sure if the play (since I haven't read it) has it that Rosilund could fight with a bo stick, like the graphic novel was showing, but I liked that bit. The funniest parts in the book were, for me, page 90ish, where Rosilund grabs The Fool's ear and in the background you can see Celia thinking about eating that poor lamb. :D The other one was where Jaques and Orlando where talking around 130. That was funny too. :D Oliver's hair was modern but cool and -
"This is only one of Shakespeare's plays that I have actually read and have seen performed. I saw the play with my uncle first and then read it later. I have seen Julius Caesar and A Winter's Tale. However, I haven't read these. Reading As You Like It made the experience twice as rewarding."
"I'm rarely enamoured with Shakespeare's comedies, and As You Like It is no exception. It retreads concepts Shakespeare has examined in other plays (Twelth Night as a more enjoyable example), and with the esception of the famous speech on the phases of man, offers nothing Shakespeare hasn't done, and better. I was reading this for a queer literature course, but the concepts in relationship to queerness have been tread and retread, and it appears the only reason we read this text in particular was in order to offer a familiar author in a queer context (which his sonnets would have achieved, and in a munch more interesting way)."
"Read this in college, again a few years ago when we saw it at the festival for the first time, and again this summer to brush up on the language and meanings. Each reading and each edition brings out things that I didn't know (or had forgotten)and adds to the pleasure. Rich reading; richer experience seeing the play again."
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