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  • Published: 28 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780143130239
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $26.99

As You Like It

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    The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and
meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned
Shakespeareans. Updated for the twentieth-century by general editors Stephen
Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an
essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the
individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. These easy-to-read editions
incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the
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  This edition of As You Like It is edited by Frances E. Dolan.

 The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
 
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.
 
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
 

  • Published: 28 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780143130239
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $26.99

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About the author

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, and was baptised on 26 April 1564. His father was a glove maker and wool merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a well-to-do local land owner. Shakespeare was probably educated in Stratford’s grammar school. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, and the couple had a daughter the following year and twins in 1585.

Shakespeare’s theatrical life seems to have commenced around 1590. We do know that he was part of the Lord Chamberlain’s Company, which was renamed the King’s Company in 1603 when James I succeeded to the throne. The Company acquired interests in two theatres in the Southwark area of London, near the banks of the Thames - the Globe and the Blackfriars.

Shakespeare’s poetry was published before his plays, with two poems appearing in 1593 and 1594, dedicated to his patron Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Most of Shakespeare’s sonnets were probably written at this time as well.

Records of Shakespeare’s plays begin to appear in 1594, and he produced roughly two a year until around 1611. His earliest plays include Henry VI and Titus Andronicus. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Richard II all date from the mid to late 1590s. Some of his most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s; these include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Antony & Cleopatra. His late plays, often known as the Romances, date from 1608 onwards and include The Tempest.

Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623 and is known as ‘the First Folio’.

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Praise for As You Like It

"Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where
you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and
A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great
texts for contemplation." --Patrick Stewart 

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