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As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare
As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare

As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: 
William Shakespeare; Todd Borlik; Fracis X. Connor; Emma Smith
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  • With pace and verve, the introduction delivers the most up-to-date account of the play's critical and performance history
  • The most thorough appraisal of the comedy as a proto-environmental text that has become a touchstone for early ecocriticism
  • Provides an innovative re-assessment of the play and its iconic 'Seven Ages of Man' speech through the lens of critical age studies
  • Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare
  • Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work
  • Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical apparatus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems

  
'We that are true lovers run into strange capers.'
  
Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It's capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to the play, upholding it as a crowning expression of the Elizabethan Renaissance while underscoring its appeal to twenty-first century readers as Shakespeare's most intrepid exploration of gender, sexuality, and the environment. Its double-cross-dressed heroine dominates the plot (and their love interest Orlando) to conduct a masterclass in gender fluidity. The melancholic Jaques unmasks the fundamental theatricality of existence and questions humanity's prerogative to displace and harm other species. Through the clown Touchstone, the comedy tests the possibility that we might laugh ourselves wise, especially when we learn to laugh at ourselves. In the Forest of Arden, we encounter Shakespeare's most beguiling vision of the natural world as a realm of serenity and harmony, while brushing up against the briars that puncture our fantasies of the simple life.
  
The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Using the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition, these volumes offer readers the latest thinking on the authentic texts (collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work) alongside innovative introductions from leading scholars. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive set of critical apparatus to give readers the best resources to help understand and enjoy Shakespeare's work.
 

Index: 

General Editors' Preface to The New Oxford Shakespeare
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of William Shakespeare

AS YOU LIKE IT

About the author: 

William Shakespeare
Edited by Todd Borlik, Reader in Renaissance Literature, University of Huddersfield, Francis X. Connor, Wichita State University, and Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford

Todd Borlik is Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He studied English Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and Keble College, Oxford before completing his PhD at the University of Washington in Seattle. For five years, he taught as an Assistant Professor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of three books and over thirty articles or book chapters on Shakespeare and early modern English literature. He is currently co-editing an Arden guide to The Winter's Tale and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and the Natural World.
  
Francis X. Connor is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, and the history of the book. An associate editor for the New Oxford Shakespeare, he is the author of Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England (2014), and his work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, PBSA, Sidney Journal, and elsewhere.

Product details

ISBN : 9780192865809

Author: 
William Shakespeare; Todd Borlik; Fracis X. Connor; Emma Smith
Pages
192 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
196 x 129 mm
Pub date
Mar 2024
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare

As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare

As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare