AS YOU LIKE IT - RSC Shakespeare

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's journey into the Forest of ArdenTHIS BOOK INCLUDES:- An introduction to As You Like It by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate- The play - with clear explanatory notes on each page - A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play- An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre- A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productionsThe most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or to participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of As You Like It in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and one actor - Dominic Cooke, Michael Boyd and Naomi Frederick - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.