Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51974-8 — As You Like It William Shakespeare , Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More Information THE NEW CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE Brian Gibbons A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles From the publication of the first volumes in the General Editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare was Philip Brockbank and the Associate General Editors were Brian Gibbons and Robin Hood. From to the General Editor was Brian Gibbons and the Associate General Editors were A. R. Braunmuller and Robin Hood. AS YOU LIKE IT Shakespeare’s As You Like It can appear bright or sombre in performance: a feast of language and a delight for comic actors; or a risk-taking exploration of gender roles. An updated introduction provides an account of what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. There is a new section on recent critical, stage and film interpretations of the play, an updated reading list and a new appendix on a possible early court performance of As You Like It in . Mapping the complexities of the play’s setting – a no-man’s-land related to both France and England – the edition also includes detailed commentary on its language and an analytical account of performance. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51974-8 — As You Like It William Shakespeare , Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More Information THE NEW CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE All’s Well That Ends Well, edited by Russell Fraser Antony and Cleopatra, edited by David Bevington As You Like It, edited by Michael Hattaway The Comedy of Errors,editedbyT.S.Dorsch Coriolanus, edited by Lee Bliss Cymbeline, edited by Martin Butler Hamlet, edited by Philip Edwards Julius Caesar, edited by Marvin Spevack King Edward III, edited by Giorgio Melchiori TheFirstPartofKingHenryIV, edited by Herbert Weil and Judith Weil The Second Part of King Henry IV, edited by Giorgio Melchiori King Henry V, edited by Andrew Gurr TheFirstPartofKingHenryVI, edited by Michael Hattaway The Second Part of King Henry VI, edited by Michael Hattaway The Third Part of King Henry VI, edited by Michael Hattaway King Henry VIII, edited by John Margeson King John,editedbyL.A.Beaurline The Tragedy of King Lear, edited by Jay L. Halio King Richard II, edited by Andrew Gurr King Richard III, edited by Janis Lull Love’s Labour’s Lost, edited by William C. Carroll Macbeth, edited by A. R. Braunmuller Measure for Measure, edited by Brian Gibbons The Merchant of Venice,editedbyM.M.Mahood The Merry Wives of Windsor, edited by David Crane A Midsummer Night’s Dream, edited by R. A. Foakes Much Ado About Nothing,editedbyF.H.Mares Othello, edited by Norman Sanders Pericles, edited by Doreen DelVecchio and Antony Hammond The Poems,editedbyJohnRoe Romeo and Juliet, edited by G. Blakemore Evans The Sonnets, edited by G. Blakemore Evans The Taming of the Shrew, edited by Ann Thompson The Tempest, edited by David Lindley Timon of Athens,editedbyKarlKlein Titus Andronicus, edited by Alan Hughes Troilus and Cressida, edited by Anthony B. Dawson Twelfth Night, edited by Elizabeth Story Donno The Two Gentlemen of Verona, edited by Kurt Schlueter The Two Noble Kinsmen, edited by Robert Kean Turner and Patricia Tatspaugh The Winter’s Tale, edited by Susan Snyder and Deborah T. Curren-Aquino The First Quarto of Hamlet, edited by Kathleen O. Irace The First Quarto of King Henry V, edited by Andrew Gurr The First Quarto of King Lear, edited by Jay L. Halio The First Quarto of King Richard III, edited by Peter Davison The First Quarto of Othello, edited by Scott McMillin The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet, edited by Lukas Erne The Taming of a Shrew: The Quarto, edited by Stephen Roy Miller © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51974-8 — As You Like It William Shakespeare , Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More Information AS YOU LIKE IT Updated edition Edited by MICHAEL HATTAWAY Professor of English, New York University in London © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51974-8 — As You Like It William Shakespeare , Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge , United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/ C Cambridge University Press , This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published Updated edition Reprinted 8875thprinting Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Shakespeare, William, –. As you like it / edited by Michael Hattway. – Updated ed. p. cm. – (The new Cambridge Shakespeare) Include bibliographical references. ---- . Fathers and daughters – Drama. Exiles – Drama. Shakespeare, William, –. As you like it. I. 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Title. .′ –dc ---- Hardback ---- Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51974-8 — As You Like It William Shakespeare , Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More Information CONTENTS List of illustrations page vi Preface to the updated edition vii List of abbreviations and conventions ix Introduction Journeys Plays within the play Theatrical genres Pastoral Counter-pastoral The condition of the country Politics ‘Between you and the women the play may please’ Gender Nuptials Sources Date and occasion Stage history Recent critical and stage interpretations Note on the text List of characters THE PLAY Textual analysis Appendixes: : An early court performance? : Extracts from Shakespeare’s principal source, Lodge’s Rosalind : The songs Reading list v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51974-8 — As You Like It William Shakespeare , Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More Information ILLUSTRATIONS The jester Tom Skelton page ‘The Wheel of Life which is called Fortune’, c. Hymen, Lucy Harrington Countess of Bedford attired for Jonson’s Hymenaei () Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, c. The Horn Dance: production by Mark Brickman, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, MrsAbingtonasRosalind Playbill for a revival at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, ‘What shall he have that killed the deer?’: Stratford-upon-Avon, Ada Rehan as Rosalind Colin Blakely (Touchstone), Rosalind Knight (Celia), Vanessa Redgrave (Rosalind): Stratford-upon-Avon, Eileen Atkins (Rosalind), David Suchet (Orlando): Stratford-upon-Avon, The final scene: Stratford-upon-Avon, Colin Douglas (Corin), Juliet Stevenson (Rosalind), Fiona Shaw (Celia): Stratford-upon-Avon, Patrick Toomey (Orlando), Adrian Lester (Rosalind): Cheek by Jowl, – Anastasia Hille (Rosalind): Shakespeare’s Globe, Alfred Molina (Touchstone), David Oyelowo (Orlando), Bryce Dallas Howard (Rosalind): Kenneth Branagh’s screen version, Illustration is reproduced by permission of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford- upon-Avon; , , are reproduced by permission of the British Library; by permission of the Marquess of Tavistock and the Trustees of the Bedford Estate; by permission of the Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees (photograph by Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art); by permission of Sheffield Theatres (photograph by Gerry Murray); , , (photograph by Angus McBean), (photograph by Zoe Dominic), , (photographs by Joe Cocks) by permission of the Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-upon-Avon; by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library; by permission of Cheek by Jowl (photograph by John Haynes); by permission of Shakespeare’s Globe (photograph by Donald Cooper); by permission of HBO and Kenneth Branagh. vi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-51974-8 — As You Like It William Shakespeare , Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More Information PREFACE TO THE UPDATED EDITION The popularity of As You Like It over the last years has generated a myriad of productions. There are not as many editors, but their accumulated industry means that each successor can make only a modest contribution to what has been revealed and explained. It is therefore appropriate to begin with a tribute to my predecessors, especially H. H. Furness, whose acute common sense shines through the verbosities that convention dictated he transcribe in the notes to the first New Variorum edition (), to his successor, Richard Knowles, whose revised work in the same series () is magnificently full, sagacious, and accurate, to Alan Brissenden, who generously offered encouragement just after his own Oxford edition had appeared