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As You Like It: Arden Performance Editions

By William Shakespeare
Series: Arden Performance Editions
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As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare, exploring themes of love, identity, and disguise as characters escape to the Forest of Arden and encounter various romantic entanglements and philosophical reflections.
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Ideal for actors, drama students, and anyone involved in performing or studying Shakespeare’s plays, particularly those seeking practical guidance on language, pronunciation, and textual variations.

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Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students.

A unique annotated edition designed for use by actors and directors in the rehearsal room.

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‘I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I’m in rehearsal on a Shakespeare play, I have no doubt that a copy from this series will be in my hand.’ ADRIAN LESTER, Actor, Director and Writer

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities, and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play’s possibilities and meanings to actors and students.

Each edition offers:

  • Facing-page notes
  • Short, clear definitions of words
  • Easily accessible information about key textual variants
  • Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words
  • An easy to read layout
  • Space to write notes
  • A short introduction to the play

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Praised for making Shakespeare accessible, this edition is lauded by actor Adrian Lester for its essential, clear notes tailored for performance rather than just study. The Ink Pellet highlights its usefulness to actors, students, and amateur Shakespeare enthusiasts, especially with strong editorial guidance from Simon Russell Beale and Shakespeare scholars.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350106680

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 October 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare

Contributors:

  • Volume editor Nora J. Williams

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 380g

Pages: 296

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Arts & Culture Classic Poetry Non-Fiction Series: Arden Performance Editions William Shakespeare

About the Author

Nora J. Williams is a lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama and Literature at the University of Essex, UK. Her work has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Early Modern Literary Studies, PARtake: The Journal of Practice as Research, and a collection of essays on Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre & Performance.

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