{"product_id":"9780671722562","title":"As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eReaders and audiences have long greeted \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/i\u003e with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent scholars have also grounded the play in the issues of its time. These include primogeniture, passing property from a father to his oldest son. \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/i\u003e depicts intense conflict between brothers, exposing the human suffering that primogeniture entails. Another perspective concerns cross-dressing. Most of Orlando’s courtship of Rosalind takes place while Rosalind is disguised as a man, “Ganymede.” At her urging, Orlando pretends that Ganymede is his beloved Rosalind. But as the epilogue reveals, the sixteenth-century actor playing Rosalind was male, following the practice of the time. In other words, a boy played a girl playing a boy pretending to be a girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authoritative edition of \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/i\u003e from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Scene-by-scene plot summaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-An annotated guide to further reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssay by Susan Snyder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014935462128,"sku":"9780671722562","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780671722562_p0.gif?v=1763606267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780671722562","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}