As You Like It: A Guide to the Play

By Stephen J. Lynch

This comprehensive guide includes a discussion of the play's textual history, analyses of its various contexts and sources of influence, an examination of its dramatic structure, a detailed plot summary, a discussion of major themes and critical approaches, and a look at major productions from the 16th through the 20th century.

Shakespeare's As You Like It continues to captivate audiences some 400 years after it was written. This reference is a comprehensive guide to the play. Beginning with a discussion of the play's textual history, the guide analyzes its various contexts and sources of influence. The play's dramatic structure is examined, a detailed plot summary is offered, and the play's major themes--along with an overview of major critical approaches to the work--are discussed. The volume also covers major productions of As You Like It from the 16th through the 20th century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313311587
• ISBN13: 9780313311581
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.7"