As You Like It (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853260592 ISBN 13: 9781853260599

Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993

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This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.

As You Like It is one of Shakespeares finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, sceptical philosophising, and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre. A recent production was deemed fresh, funny, sexy and, when it matters, deeply touching. As You Like It is part of the Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series, used in the workshops of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Every volume in the series has been newly edited by Cedric Watts, described by Edward Said as a man for whom the enjoyment and enrichment of friends and students is the main consideration in what he does.

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An excellent introduction to Shakespeare for the junior reader. --The School Librarian

Biografía del autor:

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) needs little introduction. As we approach the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, his reputation as one of the greatest writers in the English language is undeniable - except by those who attribute his works to other writers.

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• Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1853260592
• ISBN 13: 9781853260599
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128