This book is edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. “As You Like It” is one of Shakespeare’s finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its highly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, melancholy 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.
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Introduction by: Cedric Watts
Series edited by: Dr. Keith Carabine