As You Like It (Bantam Classic)

Features of As You Like It (Bantam Classic)

This wisely funny comedy which contains some of Shakespeares loveliest poetry contrasts a courts world of envy and rivalry with a forests world of compassion and harmony In the Forest of Arden the banished young heroine Rosalind disguised as a gentleman farmer encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters including a fool a malcontent traveler her own banished father and the banished young man she loves Romantic happiness triumphs even as we laugh at the excesses of love at the ways of court and countryside indeed at everything in this masterpiece of comic writingEach Edition Includes Comprehensive explanatory notes Vivid introductions and the most uptodate scholarship Clear modernized spelling and punctuation enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English Completely updated detailed bibliographies and performance histories An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play along with an extensive filmography