As You Like It

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._x000D_
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The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical reflection has helped to make As You Like It perennially popular in the theatre._x000D_
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The text of this edition is taken, by arrangement, from the Cambridge University Press ‘New Shakespeare’, edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson.